tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29459499.post8799099359843734310..comments2024-01-29T21:39:07.526+02:00Comments on This Ongoing War: A Blog: 10-Jan-13: When terror is ignored by news reporting agencies, the BBC for instance, what can we learn?Oz_in_Zionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13661581252423495040noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29459499.post-87605731253663688522013-01-10T13:23:29.488+02:002013-01-10T13:23:29.488+02:00Whether or not Patten himself sets the tone, or in...Whether or not Patten himself sets the tone, or instructs the editors, or simply whispers in the ear of a BBC manager, the issue that comes to the fore here, as in the shabby events that characterized the EU's disgraceful duplicity on the subject of funding terrorism with European taxpayers' money, is whether we believe such large, important organizations capable of this sort of cover up.<br /><br />Patten's track record suggests that "yes" is a realistic answer. <br /><br />Believing that the BBC is <b>so</b> objective, <b>so</b> open, <b>so</b> committed to the highest values of journalism, from the top of its trust structure to the last of its editors, sub-editors, reporters and presenters, as to make an agenda-driven policy of covering up and denying unlikely - now <b>THAT</b> takes some imagination.This Ongoing Warhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00071059442104716833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29459499.post-39368696076663424592013-01-10T13:07:37.124+02:002013-01-10T13:07:37.124+02:00So, let me understand this. You are saying that Lo...So, let me understand this. You are saying that Lord Chris Patten of Barnes, currently Chairman of the BBC Trust at a period when the BBC may have tried to cover up a paedophelia scandal, may be preventing the BBC from reporting accurately on the Middle East.<br />On the face of it, that does not sound logical...except when you remember that when Patten was EU Commissioner for External Relations, the EU censored (and continues to censor) a report explaining how its funding for the Palestinians was misappropriated.Michael Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00662336838381633380noreply@blogger.com