Offered without comment

[mrph]

More than twenty people have been arrested in Britain in a plot to kill thousands of innocent air passengers. The British press is undoubtedly looking frantically for somebody to blame. But they won't see the most obvious one: the tax-funded BBC.

Comments

[mrph.livejournal.com]

No apology necessary. Like I say, "offered without comment" (you can probably guess my views on this, though).

[adamw]

Stuff like that makes my blood boil.

(Look out for my post shortly for more on all this...)

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

What a load of

Who the hell is that person, anyway?

[nils.livejournal.com]

WTF?

[lurkingcat]

*Reads*

*Falls over laughing*

Oh dear. Who the heck is he?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

[zotz]

Yahoo's decided to move into The Onion's territory, then?

In other news, I seem to have accidentally registered with Yahoo(!?) simply to give it a disrecommendation. Most of it's just flamebait, but miscounting the number of years since '97 really is a howler.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I fear that whoever wrote this is actually serious...

I laughed at that, too, if he can't get a simple and well recorded fact like that right, how are you supposed to believe anything else he says?

[razornet.livejournal.com]

I'll comment.

What a total fuckwit.

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

A fairly common viewpoint among right-wing extremists AKA the US press: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/thinkprogress/1104410.html

[scaryj.livejournal.com]

Perhaps in the USA BBC is thought to stand for Big Bad Communists...

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

TFA's conclusions are bollocks and the BBC's leftist agenda is massively overstated. Even as a Conservative (big C, literally card-carrying) myself, I think that the BBC tends towards establishmentarianism far more than it tends towards radicalism.

However, if the point was altered to a much less viciferous "The BBC teach us to be ashamed of English heritage far more often than they celebrate it" then I would agree. Note my specific and deliberate use of English rather than British.

There is a problem with the cultural mix of presenters and journalists - it is very far from a fair reflection of the cultural mix of the UK. They seem to massively favour presenters and journalists with a London-centric or Edinburgh-centric cosmopolitan background. For instance, there are no distinctly Brummie, Liverpudlian, Mancunian, Geordie or Bristolian announcers on Radio 4, however there are a number of distinctly Scottish announcers, and even one heavily distinct Jamaican announcer (although to be fair he is on stand-in loan from the World Service). Indeed, the BBC's flagship news programme, The Today Programme, is usually chaired by a Welshman and a Scot, despite it usually discussing only English politics.

My question, though, is whether this is an agenda led by the BBC, or the BBC led by an agenda originating elsewhere.

[jruske.livejournal.com]

Interesting. The US education system - particularly the slanted social studies prepared and provided to my generation and possibly later - was extremely anti-American. For example Nacirema's (http://web.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html) was required education to show American adolescents in the 9th grade (15 years old) how the American culture was distorted and irrational. (Note that Nacirema is American spelled backwards.)

I made the mistake of protesting in class abot 15 minutes into the lecture, but luckily it wasn't the current facist public school system currently in place in the USA, so I was simply asked to wait in the hall so the rest of the students could be indoctrinated before they figured out the word reversal. (Currently I'm pretty sure the public school system would have demanded I be medicated or otherwise restrained and contained for being disruptive by asking questions like "Why?" and demanding an explanation for "How?"

But I don't see the school system or the media for being to blame. I see the families and communities. The school system and media are third parties - they provide what they provide. It is up to the family and the community to dispell the stupidity, to explain, to teach critical thinking.

If you depend on a bureaucracy or a business to teach critical thinking... then you are a fool.

[blu-matt.livejournal.com]

Obviously an American fucktard.

I like that word: fucktard.

[kiaransalyn.livejournal.com]

I find it somewhat ironic that a right-wing article carries an advert for immigration. (The' You can get a Green card advert.)