BBC - An Abuse of Media Power

A must read from Melanie Phillips.

The main reason I started this blog was to expose the anti-American and anti-Israeli crusade being waged by the BBC. Search this blog and you will find overwhelming evidence to prove this.

Last April I exposed the BBC using a well know anti-war activist, Jo Wilding, as a source for false reporting on alleged war crimes by US troops in Falluja.

Yesterday I caught them at it again.

Today Melanie writes:

A friend went into Blackwells university bookshop in Oxford and asked the counter clerk: 'Do you have a copy of Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel?' 'There is no case for Israel', the counter clerk replied.

And in a recent survey "Britons rank Israel 'worst country'".

Melanie puts the blame squarely on the British media, and rightly so.

Yet that is what is happening. Public debate in Britain is now marked by a collapse of objectivity, truth, fairness and balance. Logic and morality have been stood on their heads. Victims are portrayed as oppressors, while mass murderers have to be understood and sympathised with. The outcome is an ugly and dangerous climate in which prejudice and lies have achieved the status of unchallengeable fact; a climate which is now being eagerly manipulated by terrorists who know that if they ratchet up their barbarism and distribute the video the result will merely be an ever greater public clamour for Tony Blair to split away from President Bush and shatter the coalition in defence of the free world.

The public has been grossly misled by the British media, and falsehoods have become accepted as fact, so much so that any statement of actual facts which undermine this mindset are excised from the debate altogether.

The British press are not alone in spreading anti-American sentiment. Commercial radio and TV are also using anti-American sentiment to sell products.

There is currently running a radio ad advertising mobile phone services. The male voice announces that network charges will not vary and then, in a very dismissive tone, announces "unlike in America". What bearing does mobile phone rates in the US have on those in the UK? Who cares? The phone company is just happy to ride the wave of anti-American sentiment.

Then there is a TV ad encouraging people to use the red button on the Sky remote to get more information. Several couples are seen having a meal and discussing the Kyoto agreement. A woman announces the agreement is dead because America refused to back it. A second woman announces, oh no it's not, the Russians have signed up, so it's back on. How do you know that, asks the first woman? The scene switches and the second woman is seen using the red button to get more information from her TV. There are many ads on different channels explaing how to get the most from the red button but this station decides to ride the wave too.

The British press are at it to, led by the rabid left wing anti-American dog trainer, The Guardian.

And now blogs are springing up in the UK and spewing forth a continuous stream of anti-American drivel with no regard for facts. One such blog, inappropriately labeled, A Logical Voice, has recently begun posting any and all anti-American headlines he can find without any regard for their validity. Fortunately, it is very easy to debunk the nonsense he puts out.

The British public and indeed the world, for the BBC is heard around the world and The Guardian is on the internet, are being fed a continuous stream of anti-American propaganda. Which led Melanie to issue this warning:

... a climate which is now being eagerly manipulated by terrorists who know that if they ratchet up their barbarism and distribute the video the result will merely be an ever greater public clamour for Tony Blair to split away from President Bush and shatter the coalition in defence of the free world.

Wake up Britain and take back your media. Use the media complaint links on the left and let them know you want the truth not propaganda.

UPDATE:

Finally, my prayers have been answered. Powerline has picked up Melanie's article. Powerline posts Melanie's final thoughts of her 17 page essay which I haven't finished yet.

It is this weakness and moral confusion that comprise the great goal of terrorist strategy; it is this that has characterised the west’s response to Islamic terror for many decades; it is this that has brought us to where we are today. In the war that has been declared upon the free world, the western media’s abuse of power is perhaps the most lethal weapon of all.

American blogs like Powerline, who exposed CBS's attempt to defeat Bush by using forged documents, Instapundit, Wizbang and Captain's Quarters understood this long ago.

So did I and that is why I started my blog. I just wish I could write as well as them.

Throughout history, when things looked there bleakest, from seemingly out of nowhere, against overwhelming odds, a way was found to turn the tide in favor of freedom and democracy.

Let's hope the rise of the bloggers will turn the tide in time once again.
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