More proof that the BBC is biased and left wing

[Real American]

Man you guys are being brainwashed....




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/08/wiraq308.xml

Hero's tale is 'too positive' for the BBC
By Chris Hastings, Arts and Media Editor, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 11:56pm BST 07/04/2007



Amid the deaths and the grim daily struggle bravely borne by Britain's forces in southern Iraq, one tale of heroism stands out.

   
Private Johnson Beharry with his Victoria Cross

 
Private Johnson Beharry's courage in rescuing an ambushed foot patrol then, in a second act, saving his vehicle's crew despite his own terrible injuries earned him a Victoria Cross.

For the BBC, however, his story is "too positive" about the conflict.

The corporation has cancelled the commission for a 90-minute drama about Britain's youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero because it feared it would alienate members of the audience opposed to the war in Iraq.

The BBC's retreat from the project, which had the working title Victoria Cross, has sparked accusations of cowardice and will reignite the debate about the broadcaster's alleged lack of patriotism.

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"The BBC has behaved in a cowardly fashion by pulling the plug on the project altogether," said a source close to the project. "It began to have second thoughts last year as the war in Iraq deteriorated. It felt it couldn't show anything with a degree of positivity about the conflict.

"It needed to tell stories about Iraq which reflected the fact that some members of the audience didn't approve of what was going on. Obviously a story about Johnson Beharry could never do that. You couldn't have a scene where he suddenly turned around and denounced the war because he just wouldn't do that.

"The film is now on hold and it will only make it to the screen if another broadcaster picks it up."

The independent production company which was developing the project for a prime-time slot on BBC1 is now believed to have taken the script to ITV.

Pte Beharry, 27, who was awarded the VC in March 2005, was the first person to receive the country's highest award for valour since 1982 and the first living recipient since 1965. He was honoured for two acts of outstanding gallantry which occurred just over a month apart while he was serving with the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, in the Iraqi town of al-Amarah, in 2004.

He was cited for "valour of the highest order" after he drove a Warrior tracked armoured vehicle through heavy enemy fire in May 2004 to come to the rescue of a foot patrol that had been caught in a series of ambushes. The 30-ton Warrior was hit by multiple rocket-propelled grenades, causing damage and resulting in the loss of radio communications. Pte Beharry drove through the ambush, taking his own injured crew and leading five other Warriors to safety. He then extracted his wounded colleagues from the vehicle, all the time exposed to further enemy fire.

The following month, Pte Beharry was again driving the lead Warrior vehicle of his platoon through al-Amarah when his vehicle was ambushed. A rocket-propelled grenade hit the vehicle and Pte Beharry received serious head injuries. Other rockets hit the vehicle incapacitating his commander and injuring several of the crew.Despite his very serious injuries, Pte Beharry then took control of his vehicle and drove it out of the ambush area before losing consciousness. He required brain surgery for his head injuries and he was still recovering when he received the VC from the Queen in June last year.

The script of the film about his heroics was being developed by Darlow Smithson, the production company responsible for the Bafta-winning Touching The Void and the docu-drama Tsunami, which was recently aired by the BBC. The Ministry of Defence is believed to have been supportive of the project and was offering the film-makers technical advice.

The BBC's decision to pull out will only confirm the fears of critics that television drama is only interested in telling bad news stories about the war.

The Ministry of Defence recently expressed concern about Channel 4's The Mark of Cain which showed British troops brutalising Iraqi detainees. That programme was temporarily pulled from the schedules after Iran detained 15 British troops.

A spokesman for the BBC admitted that it had abandoned the VC project but refused to elaborate.
 

[J @ M @ L]

I respect their decision in not wanting to sugarcoat this crusade.

[virtuoso]

Lol do I even need to dissect your stupidity? probably not but I shall do so anyway first of all you claim that the unwillingness to air this heroism documentary is an example of brainwashing the public. Yet let me give you a reality check over 6,000 british soldiers have been injured over 30,000 american soldiers have been injured and so by the same logic, why aren't they interviewing and profiling the victims who have had their legs blown off, the ones with half their face hanging off? because this is too close to reality and would lead to pillocks like you in uproar. You are mind controlled fool who has no real sense of right and wrong, your views are very flexible but they are not flexed by your own experiences, your mind is purely moulded by whatever the establishment says. You did not come across this article and make this conclusion by yourself instead you got from this from fox or some other vile neocon website, purporting to show how the soldiers are being done an injustice. The fact is you do not want to see the true grim grisly horrific reality of this war, instead you just want reassurance and positive stories being disseminated to enhance this perception that the war is just and being waged by the forces of good.

You don't want to know how cancer rates are soaring, how the troops are dropping like flies, you don't want to know about the depleted uranium poisoning, you don't want to know about how babies are born and then just as quickly as they are born they die in the doctors arms because they do not even have the most basic of medical supplies anymore. You have not the slightest bit of interest in how the streets are overflowing with sewerage, with no flowing clean water, by how most of the times even in the big cities there are power blackouts, you don't want to know about the 2 million iraqis who have died both in this most recent war and thanks to the the sanctions the loving U.N imposed on this country. You don't want to know about the reality of the puppet government which has been installed in Iraq, at how the people of that nation are being oppressed, you don't want to know about the tens of thousands of Iraqis who are rounded up and tortured, about how the american soldiers kick in peoples homes, scream at them to get down on the floor and when the people don't understand, start beating them and ransack their homes. So don't you come on here posing as someone who is talking about bias, you just want to be wrapped in a blanket of ignorance, you want to hear tales of vitriolic rhetoric black and white simplistic stories where there are clearly defined goodies and baddies. You simply want to be fed endless successes and you want to be able to wrap yourself in the red white and blue without having a clue what it really stands for!

[J @ M @ L]

CWalker's problem might not be with the channel itself, but rather their name... we all know how much he loves his small white cocks in porn, and with a name like BBC, this channel is surely not gonna be one of CWalker's favorites.

[King Tech Quadafi]

You don't want to know how cancer rates are soaring, how the troops are dropping like flies, you don't want to know about the depleted uranium poisoning, you don't want to know about how babies are born and then just as quickly as they are born they die in the doctors arms because they do not even have the most basic of medical supplies anymore. You have not the slightest bit of interest in how the streets are overflowing with sewerage, with no flowing clean water, by how most of the times even in the big cities there are power blackouts, you don't want to know about the 2 million iraqis who have died both in this most recent war and thanks to the the sanctions the loving U.N imposed on this country. You don't want to know about the reality of the puppet government which has been installed in Iraq, at how the people of that nation are being oppressed, you don't want to know about the tens of thousands of Iraqis who are rounded up and tortured, about how the american soldiers kick in peoples homes, scream at them to get down on the floor and when the people don't understand, start beating them and ransack their homes. So don't you come on here posing as someone who is talking about bias, you just want to be wrapped in a blanket of ignorance, you want to hear tales of vitriolic rhetoric black and white simplistic stories where there are clearly defined goodies and baddies. You simply want to be fed endless successes and you want to be able to wrap yourself in the red white and blue without having a clue what it really stands for!

chap u got the quote of the month for this one

[virtuoso]

ha thanks....people of real americans ilk enrage me and that was just an expression of me seething

[J @ M @ L]

Real American is clearly losing this one.

[Narrator]

I think this just reflects that the BBC is mostly concerned with making money, just like any corporation.  If the BBC had a large audience of right-wing flag-wavers to cater to (as we do here in the states), they would cater to them, but they don't.

[Don Rizzle]

I think this just reflects that the BBC is mostly concerned with making money, just like any corporation.  If the BBC had a large audience of right-wing flag-wavers to cater to (as we do here in the states), they would cater to them, but they don't.

no its payed for by british tax payers

[Don Seer]

.. and has no advertising.. yeah thats right.. its a trip to watch a program (or even movie) right through wihout breaks.. god bless the BBC

[Boo-Yaa †]

The money we pay for the BBC and the shows are shite!

Id rather not have it!