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Post by olivia on Nov 20, 2005 20:14:22 GMT
Yesterday, a discussion forum about the Hugo Chavez - Vicente Fox spat was featured on BBC's Have Your Say page: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/default.stmAbout 95% of the respondents were anti-Chavez, saying that his comments towards Fox were demeaning (about a quarter of the posters were Mexican). Today? The discussion is completely gone. (despite the fact that discussions usually stay for 5-7 days on the page) Might it have anything to do with the fact that Hugo Chavez spoke to the BBC a while back? (That interview, where he is revered as a "great man", is *still* on the Have Your Say page) Personally, I am indifferent to the Chavez vs Fox/Bush conflict, but I'm sickened by the Beeb's behaviour. |
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Post by steevo on Nov 20, 2005 21:29:21 GMT
Here's a quick opinion and it may be overly simplified. Chavez is a hard left dictator and hates the Bush Administration. If he looked so very bad in his responses to Fox, the BBC may have been uncomfortable by implication because of sympathies in their own biased reporting: anti-capitalism and anti-Bush.
There is so much to make him look as bad as he really is. Here's just a few quotes:
“The Devil’s economic model . . . The capitalist exploitation model has destroyed oceans, entire oceans”
"I am the second Fidel Castro of Latin America"
On Saddam Hussein: “A brother”
Gaddafi's Libya: “A model of participatory democracy”
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Post by Teddy Bear on Nov 21, 2005 0:55:51 GMT
Welcome Olivia. In fact the Chavez-Fox Have Your Say page appears to be back there now news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4440048.stmIt has happened to me as well, that for a time a certain BBC webpage disappears, but later turns up again. Not in all cases though, so when I suspect that a certain page might be deleted or stealth edited, often following blog comments, I make a copy of the original. I'm suspect from the tone of your complaint that this is not the only occasion that the BBC has got under your skin though, so I hope you will continue to post your impressions. Get it off your chest as they say  |
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Post by olivia on Nov 21, 2005 15:00:25 GMT
Hi Teddy Bear, Yes, they posted that "Readers React" article on that page, but the actual free discussion forum was taken down (one like newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=375&&&edition=1&ttl=20051121150003). Instead, they cherry-picked 4 people that they interviewed "on the street" that were considerably more mild in their responses towards Chavez than the real discussion. I agree with Steve, too. And there is a subtle way that they insert editorial bias in almost everything they write. |
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Post by Teddy Bear on Nov 21, 2005 21:27:57 GMT
Hi Teddy Bear, Yes, they posted that "Readers React" article on that page, but the actual free discussion forum was taken down (one like newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=375&&&edition=1&ttl=20051121150003). Instead, they cherry-picked 4 people that they interviewed "on the street" that were considerably more mild in their responses towards Chavez than the real discussion. I agree with Steve, too. And there is a subtle way that they insert editorial bias in almost everything they write. That's what we're here for - to show them that they're not making fools of everyone |
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