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Tony Blair "shocked" at anti-American bias of BBC coverage of Hurricane Katrina
AndrE16686:
--- Quote from: CWalker187 on September 17, 2005, 12:07:21 PM ---
--- Quote from: Overseer on September 17, 2005, 11:57:48 AM ---hehe.. on the real though...
he talks like europe is some big country like the USA... we arent states.. the rest of europe can go fuck themselves.. british people could give a fuck about france or germany as far as alliances and politics go.. we're allied closer to america than the rest of europe remember that!
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I am grouping Europe together because as a whole the European press is left wing and Anti-American. Tony Blair himself agrees.
I am not attacking your country, man. I love Britain. I justhate the BBC.
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Why is the BBC 'anti-American'? I think channels like the BBC, SBS, ABC and non Murdoch aligned journalism is absolutely necessary in order to recieve a well informed opinion. Sadly there are ALOT of CWalkers out in the world......
rafsta:
lol calling brits brain-washed, when its known america is the most brainwashed country in the world when it comes to media... you are controlled by your governtment CWALKER.
and tony blair has been riding bush's dick for fuck knows how long, ofcourse he will back him on this.
Real American:
Blair calls BBC coverage 'full of hate of America': Murdoch Sat Sep 17, 6:35 PM ET
NEW YORK (AFP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has complained privately to media tycoon Rupert Murdoch that the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina carried an anti-American bias, Murdoch said at a conference here.
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Murdoch, chairman of the media conglomerate News Corporation, recounted a conversation with the British leader at a panel discussion late Friday hosted by former president Bill Clinton.
"Tony Blair -- perhaps I shouldn't repeat this conversation -- told me yesterday that he was in Delhi last week. And he turned on the BBC world service to see what was happening in New Orleans," Murdoch was quoted as saying in a transcript posted on the Clinton Global Initiative website.
"And he said it was just full of hate of America and gloating about our troubles. And that was his government. Well, his government-owned thing," he said of the publicly owned broadcaster.
Murdoch went on to say that anti-American bias was prevalent throughout Europe.
"I think we've got to do a better job at answering it. And there's a big job to do. But you're not going to ever turn it around totally," said Murdoch, one of three media magnates who spoke at Clinton's "Global Initiative" forum on peace and development.
The former US president, who held his conference to coincide with the United Nations summit in New York, agreed that the BBC's coverage was lacking.
While the BBC's reports on the hurricane were factually accurate, its presentation was "stacked up" to criticize President George W Bush's handling of the disaster, Clinton said.
"There is nothing factually inaccurate. But ... it was designed to be almost exclusively a hit on the federal response, without showing what anybody at any level was doing that was also miraculous, going on simultaneously in a positive way," Clinton said.
Blair's remarks, as reported by Murdoch, are sure to aggravate the already difficult relations between the prime minister's government and the BBC.
A government weapons expert, David Kelly, killed himself in 2003 after he was revealed as the source for BBC allegations that intelligence on the Iraqi threat was exaggerated to secure public support for the US-led war.
The BBC's director-general, Greg Dyke, and chairman, Gavyn Davies, were forced to resign following an official inquiry that found the BBC at fault.
A former BBC foreign correspondent and MP, Martin Bell, defended the BBC's coverage of the hurricane and alleged that Blair was trying to curry favor with a powerful media owner who controls important British newspapers.
"Tony Blair was telling Murdoch what he wanted to hear because he needs Murdoch's support," Bell was quoted as saying by British media.
The BBC said it had received no complaint from Downing Street about its coverage.
Blair's office declined to comment.
Don Seer:
haha.. dude..
"That the Government promised media mogul Rupert Murdoch it would not change its policy on Europe without telling him first. "
too much influence/connections to the media me thinks!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=362725&in_page_id=1770
'EclipZe:
I got BBC and I live in the netherlands ::) no cable :P
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