Writer to BBC interviewer: ‘Stop accusing me of being a rioter’

[ellisonz]

Writer to BBC interviewer: ‘Stop accusing me of being a rioter’
By Dylan Stableford | The Cutline – 5 hrs ago

The British media has fielded plenty of criticism over its coverage of the U.K. riots--in part, for siding with police in their clashes with London youth, and for not telling the latter's side of the story.

"Wretched media coverage on London protests from BBC to Al Jazeera," a post on the WikiLeaks Twitter feed read. "Not a single protester interviewed. Absolutely pathetic."

On Tuesday, the BBC interviewed Darcus Howe, a 68-year-old West Indian writer, broadcaster and resident of one of the South London suburbs affected by the riots.

Howe was asked by a BBC host if he condoned the riots--and things turned ugly.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/writer-bbc-interviewer-show-respect-old-west-indian-203939047.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJgILxGK0o&feature=related

[ellisonz]

1. Kick.

[Distant Observer]

2. When their is rioting in Africa or the Arab World the MSM only interviews the "protestors." Not so

when the "protesting" happens in their own countries.

[Bonobo]

5. Ding ding ding

Does anyone think for a moment that the Egyptian protestors were viewed as anything but rioters and hooligans to the entrenched leaders of Egyptian society that were "doing allright"?

[Prometheus Bound]

3. Man that pisses me off. It's not the first time I've seen racism ooze out of a BBC interviewer.

That slime bucket of an interviewer should be fired.

[rucky]

4. K&R

[Bonobo]

6. kick