tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post689645507307197821..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Ridiculing a radicalCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-85579685275335726282016-12-16T13:04:40.878+00:002016-12-16T13:04:40.878+00:00Sadly the indoctrination by the BBC has been so su...Sadly the indoctrination by the BBC has been so successful that the problems within the BBC and the wider liberal/left are self-perpetuating. For decades they have preyed on fears about appearing nationalistic, which paradoxically was never a strong part of British culture, to the extent of making any celebration of our own culture not only morally unacceptable but impossible. It is very easy for the left to claim that that there is no such thing as a British way of life when they have played such a large part in destroying it.Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05818860172734529356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-50353907001851366952016-12-15T17:59:20.612+00:002016-12-15T17:59:20.612+00:00Additional thoughts: This harkens back to the old,...Additional thoughts: This harkens back to the old, relevant days of Biased BBC, when 'John Reith' and others from the BBC engaged in debate about this very issue. Nothing has changed at all since then, not a single lesson learned. Back then we were told to shut up and let the BBC get on with their Social Cohesion mission and bringing people together. I and others kept telling him and them that they were going about it the wrong way. It was always, "Don't Panic, I'm Islamic", "White Girl", and other attempts to push only one side of the argument, to convince only one side to accomodate. They never, ever do shows trying to tell Mohammedans that maybe there was more to British heritage than racism and colonialism, and it was in their best interests to reach out to their neighbors and integrate a little.<br /><br />The problem is that most Beeboids - especially those in production and upper management - agree with Humaira's assessment. So everyone at the BBC is constitutionally unable to address the issue in a helpful manner. Ten years on, they're still getting it wrong.<br /><br />No change in management structure will fix this. No streamlining of divisions will keep this from happening again. No cap on executive payouts or salary will make them stop pulling this crap. The endless rounds of training and away days, BBC College of Journalism courses, or stroppy memos from the top have done nothing to resolve this corporation-wide, long-term failure of judgment and duty. Only a massive, root and branch purge will even begin to change this problem. David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-21610306328722517872016-12-15T16:46:22.475+00:002016-12-15T16:46:22.475+00:00The BBC is going to regret this in the end. Social...The BBC is going to regret this in the end. Social engineering is a very bad idea, and it's especially bad when delusional, arrogant Beeboids do it.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-71498668375056880132016-12-15T02:11:54.146+00:002016-12-15T02:11:54.146+00:00I would say Abdul Haqq was the least deluded one i...I would say Abdul Haqq was the least deluded one in the house. Everything he said about Islam he could justify by reference to the Koran, Hadith and Sharia Law. The others had to resort to leaving the room, ridicule and social displacement activity (complaining about him not pulling his weight in the kitchen). They had neither the will nor the knowledge to provide any counter-arguments. What Abdul actually said about what Islam was seemed to me completely unremarkable - the sort of thing broadcast on all the main Islamic TV channels for instance. The only difference is that unlike most scholars and clerics he didn't bother to dress it up to avoid frightening the kaffirs, as is the usual way. <br /><br />This is one of the reasons why the "liberal Islam" delusion is dangerous - because it masks the reality that the small minority of liberal Muslims really have few arguments to put up against the mainstream interpretation (as supplied by scholars and clerics). The liberals can only disengage from argument and engage with the majority culture - fine in itself but not leading to fundamental reform. <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com