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posting on the Booker column in the Telegraph on Sunday questions why it is that the BBC does not report the American efforts in the Indian Ocean, watching the BBC on could be forgiven for thinking that the Americans were not even helping when in fact theirs is the biggest force operating in the area. When the BBC has cover this, they have inferred that George Bush only sent in the US Navy as a propaganda exercise, this is really disgusting, but shows that the BBC cannot be trusted to report truthfully if it involves America the biggest evil the world has known.
Booker takes on the BBC over its coverage of the tsunami disaster. Headed “‘Don’t mention the navy’ is the BBC’s line”, his story rehearsed the litany of complaint familiar to our readers about the BBC’s biased coverage of the relief effort, studiously ignoring what was by far the most effective and dramatic response to Asia’s tsunami disaster – the effort put in by the US Navy.
When even Communist China’s news agency tells us more about what is really going on than the BBC, we see just how strange the world has become, writes Booker.
One real lesson of this disaster, as of others before, is that all the international aid in the world is worthless unless one has the hardware and organisational know-how to deliver it. That is what the US and Australia have been showing, as the UN and the EU are powerless to do. But because, to the BBC, it is a case of “UN and EU good, US and military bad”, the story is suppressed. The BBC’s performance has become a national scandal.
I can only add that the Saturday coverage by the BBC was by far the worst so far. It managed to do a round-up of all the disaster areas, without mentioning the US relief effort once, despite a longish piece shot in Banda Aceh which, courtesy of Diplomad, we know has been equipped and is being run by the Americans.
Yet, on the day that the USS Bonhomme Richard started work in earnest, the BBC found time to do a long “puff” on HMS Chatham, showing endless footage of matelots clearing rubble. Nice to see our lads in action, but the US forces deserve at least a mention. Not least, helicopters from the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group had their biggest aid delivery day, bringing 125,000 pounds of food, water and other supplies to Aceh aboard 15 helicopters.
A comment by Alex Dakers puts a lot of this Eucentric BBC reporting into perspective:
Perhaps the answer can be found in The EU’s de Clercq Report 1993 devised initiatives to ensure that:
“…European identity must be ‘ingrained in people’s minds’ as a ‘good product’ using marketing techniques and that certain social categories, particularly ‘women and youth’, should become ‘priority target groups’. More controversially, it suggested that newscasters and reporters must themselves be targeted, they must themselves be persuaded about European Union…so that they subsequently become enthusiastic supporters of the cause.”
Links to other posts that cover the EU agenda to ingrain EU identity in people’s minds:
Here and Here
I am so glad that there is someone who actually doesn’t think that America is the devil incarnate. I am kind of sick of the EU playing “holier than thou” with the rest of the world. America is far from being perfect but there is still good it does in the world.
you think the BBC is bad , check out the facts our fellow Spainish EU citizen must relie on when forming opinions.
http://www.iht.com/pdfs/elpais/ep3.pdf
Tsunami relief effort roundup of foriegn participation
What about the Australians ?
And check those Brits out… 380 personel operating 31 ships, 22 choppers, 4 aircraft….. bet those poor buggers are going to need a bit of R+R when the mission is finished.
so much of the mainstream Euro press is just junk!!
I would not argue about the European press, I am however interested in the BBC output because we pay for it.