BBC and news media in general

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Ok, this is just a massive massive rant. Most people get annoyed when i go on about this.

What happened? What happened to journalistic duty, to a fair and unbiased approach? What happened to displaying the facts?

I know american media gets this pointed at them a lot but I do think that the BBC are like the pig standing next to the elephant. Everyone looks at the elephant ignoring the fact that the pig's just eaten your pastries.

Primarily my gripe with them is their stance on foreign affairs. So many times, i have seen them create skewed presentations and on some occasions create outright lies, completely opposite to the truth. Most of this is probably due to the fact that they are a government run organisation so have to smear government enemies whenever they  are told to, but even then sometimes they go to far. For example, ex-president of palestine, Yasa Arafat's death had a little obituary on the bbc. The entire obituary was listing what he intended to achieve with palestine, and then listing how he had failed at everything he had ever attempted. I mean considering that palestine almost immediately split in two, politically speaking, so quickly after his death, you'd think that he was doing something right while he was alive, and yet the BBC showed no respect whatsoever and did everything they could to make a well loved leader out to be a blithering idiot, literally days after the man had died.

I stopped watching BBC foreign affairs news after I just got so disgusted with their bias, but it still irks me so much because this is probably the biggest media organisation in the world. They are well trusted because of that elephant/pig analogy I said before, but if you look at them on their own, even a child could see that it's not right. As a child, I did notice it, particularly at 9/11, where one supposed expert said that they don’t know who purpotrated the attacks, but that people should avoid going to muslim countries. How does that make sense? Not only did they apparently go by the method “guilty until proven innocent,” but they lumped together every single muslim country into one big gelatinous blob of evil. That’s a billion people labelled as dangerous from one statement. This was compounded when there were those train attacks in spain, which was almost immediately linked to ETA, a Spanish terrorist group, and yet everyone was told that it was fine to go to spain, even just the day after the attack.

They’re not the only ones to stereotype and discriminate. Just today (the event that proved to be the catalyst of my rant,) there was a report on channel 4 news about the human rights and equality commission which deals with this sort of discrimination against pretty much all groups of colour, creed, disability and sexual orientation. They  listed the groups that suffer discrimination,  and concerning homosexuals, they had a video of two guys in stripey sailor tops, prancing about that raging fairies. Now I know there are people like that, but can they not show anything except the stereotype. Can’t they show one of those gay-pride marches with people holding up that rainbow flag?

It’s madness, it really is.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Unfortunately, most all people are judgmental and biased. BBC will still continue because people in America are gullible and because they are gullible, they will continue to trust them. I see what you're saying though, and I agree with you.

[Gabag]

Whatever gets the ratings the media does it
if someone's personal privacy and human rights violated they'll make a story about it
if they want to twist out politic to what they see fit they WILL do it


be it for a completely stupid reason, whatever brings in the money for them, the media reports it, makes people look terrible, ruins careers, all with a carefree smile on their face and the "Freedom of the Press" on their lips, even though they leave no one alone in the right that people dont have to tell them anything

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This has been Gabag from the News Room of Channel 6 News, and see my report at 8 'The Truth about Furries and the fact we aren't the rapists and sex crazed freaks they generalize them to be'
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no matter how true my statement on the Channel 6 news Room will be
there will always be some opinion in it due to human nature, and the fact people could see it as a terrible lie and that I should be punished

its human nature that controls
Human Nature that ruins
Human Nature that exploits
Human nature that persists
we as Humans tend to be naturally evil, as in if money lines our pocket we'll do it, no matter the moral convictions

Respect doesnt matter as long as money is achieved in the news
if someone pays top dollar to see their rep ruined, the media will somehow make it happen
they can't show the OTHER side of the stereotypical coin because most people believe (just an example so dont hate me people) that gay people are always talkin in that way, always wanting to have you know what etc. etc.
They can't show people how they REALLY are cause then there would be no cash, ratings would drop, and the world would just move to the next biased news station and enjoy their inaccurate spoon fed crud


The ending of my rant
If a news station is controlled by the Gov. it tends to be the biggest propaganda station in that area
if it's in a nationw here you could say what you want
Some news stations will hate on one party, and do their best to make it look bad, opinions are pressed, and nothing is ever DONE
like in one news report of a station that I rather hate, Fox news said that Obama was too rich to have normal mustard...
they will do anything, best thing to do is find a station that you agree with and hope that one day a station finally says the truth, and nothing but the truth

if that happens i'll probably jump for joy

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

This might sound weird, but I do think the closest organisation we'll ever get to fair press is Al Jazeera. I mean, yeah it's a government controlled news station, but it's surprisingly fair to other countries. For example, when they showed the results of a survey showing that around half of americans think middle eastern countries are intrinsically evil, they interviewed a guy who was part of that half, but they also interviewed a guy who thought that many middle eastern countries are demonised. Almost all news programs would never do that. As an equal comparison, the BBC talked about a survey that showed that 19% of muslim men in Britain support the Taliban. They only interviewed someone who did support the taliban, and when talking about women, they showed that about 80% were opposed to the taliban, they only interviewed those who were opposed. Not only does this totally distort the findings of the survey, but it stereotypes muslims, showing men as aggressive, oppressive terrorists, and women as the hapless victims of an evil religion.

In fact the difference between Al Jazeera and most other stations has prompted top journalists to jump over to their side, including Sir David Frost (Dat dude wot interviewed Nixon). I do think that if you're ever gonna get a relatively fair view, you're gonna get it from there.