Monday, March 27, 2006

BBC Agenda Surfaces Again

Of all the excellent, well-written, passionate and intelligent blogs by Iraqis, which one does the BBC nominate for its non-fiction award? The most anti-American one. Of course.

It's the little things ...

that make a BBC worldview. Take the coverage of today's March for Free Expression, a response to the recent world-wide outbreak of cartoonophobia.
"Blog site
The free speech movement was born from a blog site on the internet and rallied hundreds from across the political spectrum to join Saturday's rally."
You'd think the story might contain a link to said blog. Ah yes, there's a link at the side of the story.
But it's a link to the cartoonophobic Global Civility site ! However could that have happened ?
Elsewhere, Stephen Pollard notes a remarkable contribution to BBC Radio Four's "Thought For The Day".
"Paying taxes is how love operates at a distance"
You can see how a service funded by a compulsory levy might warm to such a religion. As Pollard says, "we either pay to have this stuff broadcast or get sent to prison".

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