JERUSALEM NOT PART OF ISRAEL
>> Friday, February 17, 2012
Did you know that the BBC doesn't think that Jerusalem is in Israel? Check out this excellent post over on The Elder of Ziyon.
Did you know that the BBC doesn't think that Jerusalem is in Israel? Check out this excellent post over on The Elder of Ziyon.
"We get from time to time people saying you're biased in favour of the Labour Party. Every time I ask people - show me a case of that bias, explain to me where we got it wrong and why what we said was so unfair - they seem to be unable to do so",
Andrew Marr May 11th, 2001.
"The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias",
Andrew Marr
the Daily Mail, Oct 21st, 2006.
"It's not a conspiracy. It's visceral. They think they are on the middle ground",
Jeff Randall former BBC Business Editor,
in The Observer, Jan 15th, 2006.
"The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?",
James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, Aug 24th, 2007.
"People who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that [global warming] is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago",
Media Guardian, Jan 31st, 2007.
"I do remember... the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. I'll always remember that"
Jane Garvey
BBC Five Live, May 10th, 2007, recalling May 2nd, 1997.
(courtesy of Jonathan Boyd Hunt)
"We need to foster peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking."
Ben Stephenson
BBC Drama Commissioning Controller
Guardian, July 16th 2009
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7 comments:
Think that the BBC are assuming that Jerusalem is in all our hearts and that we are all Jews in spirit...so to confine it to a geographical location only shows our willingness to limit and constrain the Judeo-Christian ideal!
Either that or the wondrous Daniel Corbett took their geography atlas!
Only wish they`d produce a map of where Irans nuclear sites are sited.
Always get the idea that Bowen, Plett, Guerin know only too well.
Not even West Jerusalem, internationally recognised as part of Israel even if there's some international dissention about the east of the city.
Suggested edit:
"<span>Did you know that the BBC doesn't think"</span>
Of course, based on what it knows it's doing only too well, it's how it acts that is the problem.
You have to wonder who makes these decisions. According to the BBC it maintains Middle East bureax in Amman Jordan, Cairo Egypt, Gaza Middle East, Jerusalem Israel and Tehran Iran. So they maintain three bureaux withing a two hour drive from each other! That rather explains the paucity of reporting from North Africa and the obsession with Gaza, doesn't it?
Screen grab, for history.
Its outside of London . Why the heck would a BBC person know where another place is ?
I checked a few other sites, and all the global weather sites will find either Israel and suggest Jerusalem, a few that seach on city find Jerusalem straight away.
However, the Met office seems to share the BBC's inability to report the weather in Jerusalem. Definitely bias!
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