The So-called BBC from The American Thinker. Hat Tip to Natalie over at Biased BBC

By now, the reader should be wondering why I insist on using the term “so-called” - in relation to the BBC.

This is in order to highlight just how powerful semantics are, and how they convey a negative or positive implication in the word or phrase to which they are associated. I haven’t had to come out and say: “I don’t like the BBC”. Using semantics, I can convey to the reader – without having to spell it out – that there is something fishy about the so-called BBC.

They do it all the time and prominent targets of this semantic treatment are President Bush, the war on terror, and the Iraq war.

A frequent example is the so-called BBC’s: “so called war on terrorism”. It keeps coming up again and again on their online, radio and TV news output.

Isn’t there a war on terror going on right now?


If you go to the front page of The American Thinker you will find several other good articles on the BBC. Seems they don't like John Simpson much and with good reason.