BBC runs anti-US billboard campaign on Iraq

[Teddy Bear]

I fail to see what business the BBC has in running a billboard campaign in New York about views over US involvement in Iraq. Especially since the BBC stance and broadcasting is consistent in labelling it as an 'occupation' and not a 'liberation', so we know what views they are looking to see as the most dominant, although judging from the picture below, they haven't managed it yet.

Anyway here's how one of their editors justifies it, now I have to throw up.

Interactive billboards
Richard Porter 18 Jun 07, 11:04 AM

Whatever you think of this blog (and judging by the comments to Peter Barron's entry there are some of you in both the "like" and the "dislike" camps) it has never been our intention to use it solely for the purposes of advertising. Sure, we're happy to tell you about a new development if we think it's noteworthy, but we don't just run "house" adverts.

Well there's an exception to every rule. We at BBC World have been running some thought-provoking billboard adverts in New York City. They are a bit of a departure from anything we've done before, and we hope they get the message across to our new and growing audiences in the US that we are serious about reflecting all sides in our news coverage.


They have also attracted quite a bit of attention elsewhere on the internet - here, , here and here, for example.

So here you are - please let us know what you think.

Richard Porter is head of news, BBC World

[steevo]

Oh brother, disgenuine assholes you can see right through.

We don't just run "house" adverts. So here's something "thought provoking." Hell that's deep.

I know throwing up sums it up. So completely obvious.

[ascendinglark]

Well I just voted "liberator". What's interesting is the result shown on that picture, with "liberator" ahead of "occupier", and this in ULTRA-leftist New York City!

Yes, this is the city in which liberals who saw 9/11 WITH THEIR OWN EYES still blame America first and swallow all that Noam Chomsky bullsh*t.

I just got done reading a book called "Useful Idiots" which goes into the extent to which the liberal media and leftists in general have been constant apologists for Communist atrocity since WWII. Some of the quotes it gives from the New York Times are simply staggering. I would LOVE to see a similar study done of the BBC's coverage of Communism.

[indikit]

How about erecting a billboard in Piccadilly Circus with a huge picture of the BBC Circus standing in the Middle East with the voting choices:

REPORTERS

COLLABORATERS

[Teddy Bear]

The great pity is that those of the left mindset really accepts the world view that the BBC puts forth without thought or question. The same way we see the affect of Islamic brainwashing in producing terrorist bombers and militants, we can see similar dynamics at work in our own society on those for whom the BBC is God.