The BBC is the Enemy

                                           Another BBC promo video for terrorists

Consider this terrorist attack in Jerusalem Old City.

A  Jewish couple walking through the Old City with a toddler and baby in two strollers. Suddenly a Palestinian man jumps out and stabs the man and his wife. In the attack the husband and a man who came to their assistance were murdered and the wife badly injured. The woman managed to run to some police nearby who killed the terrorist. An interesting detail that provides some illuminating context is that the badly injured woman was mocked, slapped and spat at by other Palestinians in the area.

How would you headline this terrorist attack story?

                 

This is what the BBC came up with:

So the story is about yet another Palestinian victim killed by the Jews! Even the Islamist apologists at Al Jazeera didn't stoop so low. It’s as if the killing of Osama Bin Laden had been headlined:

            

Muslim recluse shot dead, after New York attack kills thousands

There are only two possibilities that I can see that would justify this extraordinary headline. A terrorist was holding a gun against the head of a BBC editor in the newsroom as he typed the headline in, or there was a disaffected  BBC employee who wrote it to ruin the BBC’s reputation only to be fired on the spot for gross negligence.

But apparently there was no terrorist or corporate sabotage involved and no firing.

In response to complaints the BBC changed the headline to:

Israelis killed in Old City ‘by Palestinian’

An improvement, but notice the quotes around Palestinian, code for “lying Jews say it’s a Palestinian; we’ll remove the quotes when Fatah confirm his nationality”.

Under further pressure the BBC finally settled on:

Israelis killed in Jerusalem, Palestinians banned from Old City

More progress toward the truth, but it’s obviously impossible for the Beeb to write about Israel without moral equivalence: poor innocent Palestinians are being made to suffer for the actions of a lone wolf. And in contrast to their articles on Palestinian deaths there were no emotive details such as the spitting, mocking and slapping that the blood-soaked woman victim with a baby endured from the ordinary Palestinians during the attack. There was also, of course, no use of the word “terrorist” in the BBC’s final draft. Diving into the twisted mentality of a BBC editor here for a second, I’d guess they considered the attack a legitimate one in a liberation struggle against the Jewish colonial invaders.

Unsurprisingly, the Israeli authorities made a strongly worded complaint arguing that the BBC’s “unethical” reporting could incite more attacks against Israelis. Israel expects a formal apology and is considering annulling BBC journalists’ press cards. The only BBC response so far has been to sniff that they “identified that the headline didn’t accurately reflect the events … so changed it [twice!] of their own accord”.

The BBC are gambling that the Israelis will not revoke the press cards of their world renowned news organisation because it would make Israel look like an unsavoury regime out to silence dissent. In this they are probably right, this time. But times change.

  

Though they’d hate the comparison, the BBC has a lot in common with the Coca Cola company. The soft drinks maker is a vast multi-national enterprise. But the value of the Coca Cola company has little to do with its bottling plants,  its 130,000 employees, or even the fabled recipe for its fizzy product. It’s the Coca Cola brand and all it represents (currently valued at around $80 billion) that is all important.

Likewise the value of the BBC news operation is not in its thousands of  journalists; its vast budget, its 90 year history, or its state of the art facilities around the world. Ultimately the only thing the BBC possesses is its reputation as an objective news supplier. This is a surprisingly robust, but once lost it will be lost forever. None of the other stuff will matter.

It’s sad when you have to watch the terrible decline of a fond acquaintance of your youth into moral degeneracy. This is how I feel about the BBC. It was always left-wing, but it used to have some self-respect and values. But now it is just a measly propaganda outfit. And not even a pro-British one at that. The BBC is now cheer-leading the most depraved scum on earth. The BBC these days is the very enemy of the truth. 

The BBC is now the enemy.


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