Reply #102: Re: BBC reporter lied

[Goel]

Don't make the mistake of believing the British Broadcasting Corporation overseas.

The BBC was compromised as an independent news outlet almost from the outset, when Winston Churchill used the organisation to help break the British General Strike of 1926.

A multitude of distortions and sympathies can be found on the channel in the decades since, from jingoism over British war efforts to a continuing favouritism towards institutions and persons of power in setting the news agenda (unless you're Hugo Chavez).

The domestic television reportage is the worst, followed by the radio and then the 'world service' radio broadcasting, which tends to be the most reliable but still betrays an intrinsic and easily discernable massive UK/US foreign policy bias.

As a UK citizen, I now find the BBC television news entirely unwatchable. In recent weeks, it seems to have gotten even worse (along with the situation in Iraq) - if this is possible.

The BBC claim to report events under conditions of impartiality is laughable - the organisation is a sick joke.

G.