Post by Teddy Bear on Apr 16, 2011 22:20:20 GMT
Though this story is on Libya, I felt it was best positioned here.
Strange how the more despotic and evil any regime is, the BBC will bend over backwards to ingratiate themselves with them. Whether journalists truly believe in the way they rule and what they stand for, or simply protecting their own skin, because their reporting does so much damage to the real victims of these tyrants, they should truly reconsider if they should station themselves in those regions at all.
We are already used to how the BBC have no qualms sacrificing Israeli needs and security to pursue their Hamas and Fatah appeasing agenda. To make the task of our troops more difficult in Libya by their reporting, as they did in Iraq and Afghanistan, borders on treason.
Libya: General Lord Dannatt's concern over BBC giving succour to Gaddafi
General Lord Dannatt, the former Chief of the General Staff, has criticised the reporting of the Libyan crisis by the BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen.
By Tim Walker 6:30AM BST 16 Apr 2011
A lugubrious presence at the best of times, Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East editor, stands accused of not accentuating the positive in his dispatches from Libya on the British, French and American-led coalition’s efforts to bring to an end Col Muammar Gaddafi’s bloody regime.
“People hang on the words of the BBC in Libya and throughout the Middle East and I do wonder if what he has been saying has been entirely helpful,” says General Lord Dannatt, the former Chief of the General Staff. “Mr Bowen has, of course, every right to report what happens, but when he dwells to such an extent on intangible things — such as how long the operation will take and whether the will is there to see it through — then it sets a tone that could hardly have given heart to members of the rebel forces.”
Dannatt urged Bowen, whose Wikipedia entry already boasts that he was “the first British journalist to interview Muammar Gaddafi since the start of the Libyan uprising against him and the government,” to “weigh his words with care.”
Barack Obama may have pledged, with David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy, to see through the operation in Libya until Gaddafi is removed from power, but Bowen is sticking to his guns.
“Questions about the lack of an exit strategy are very important at the moment — it’s one reason why there’s discord in Nato,” he tells me. “I think my reporting has been accurate and my analysis has tried to explain the challenges faced by all sides.”
Strange how the more despotic and evil any regime is, the BBC will bend over backwards to ingratiate themselves with them. Whether journalists truly believe in the way they rule and what they stand for, or simply protecting their own skin, because their reporting does so much damage to the real victims of these tyrants, they should truly reconsider if they should station themselves in those regions at all.
We are already used to how the BBC have no qualms sacrificing Israeli needs and security to pursue their Hamas and Fatah appeasing agenda. To make the task of our troops more difficult in Libya by their reporting, as they did in Iraq and Afghanistan, borders on treason.
Libya: General Lord Dannatt's concern over BBC giving succour to Gaddafi
General Lord Dannatt, the former Chief of the General Staff, has criticised the reporting of the Libyan crisis by the BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen.
By Tim Walker 6:30AM BST 16 Apr 2011
A lugubrious presence at the best of times, Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East editor, stands accused of not accentuating the positive in his dispatches from Libya on the British, French and American-led coalition’s efforts to bring to an end Col Muammar Gaddafi’s bloody regime.
“People hang on the words of the BBC in Libya and throughout the Middle East and I do wonder if what he has been saying has been entirely helpful,” says General Lord Dannatt, the former Chief of the General Staff. “Mr Bowen has, of course, every right to report what happens, but when he dwells to such an extent on intangible things — such as how long the operation will take and whether the will is there to see it through — then it sets a tone that could hardly have given heart to members of the rebel forces.”
Dannatt urged Bowen, whose Wikipedia entry already boasts that he was “the first British journalist to interview Muammar Gaddafi since the start of the Libyan uprising against him and the government,” to “weigh his words with care.”
Barack Obama may have pledged, with David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy, to see through the operation in Libya until Gaddafi is removed from power, but Bowen is sticking to his guns.
“Questions about the lack of an exit strategy are very important at the moment — it’s one reason why there’s discord in Nato,” he tells me. “I think my reporting has been accurate and my analysis has tried to explain the challenges faced by all sides.”