On Jul 18, 9:27 pm, D Peter Maus wrote:
Tester wrote:
I heard on the BBCR2 stream that at least one program on BBCWS was
involved.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6904516.stm

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© BBC MMVII

This is not a problem exclusive to BBC. However, it's good to see
that Auntie and The Trust take matters seriously enough to come clean
about it.

Let's hope some of this refreshing and bold public introspection
becomes contagious.

Now, if they could take the same position with some of their news
editors, they'd be back onto a path of credibility.

p


I'm still waiting for NBC in the US to apologize for the breathless
wall to wall coverage of the Virginia Tech killer that occurred for 12
full hours after they got his stuff in the mail, continued until the
clamor for them to stop grew too loud to ignore. While the news media
is apologizing for that, they can also apologize for the nine day long
marathon of misery they aired between September 11-20, 2001, the
towers collapsing and people running and blood and gore everywhere
over and over and over constantly, interspersed with talking heads
trying to explain it for us. Radio Havana reported that there were a
number of suicides and attempted suicides over the Wall of Misery,
people watched it for 3 or 4 days straight and then blew their brains
out. According to one poll, 17% of Americans still have nightmares
over the events and the relentless media coverage.

Don't think it won't happen again. I've seen depictions of house and
wildfires on newspaper web sites that were downright pornographic, 10
different views of one burned house, close up shots of the anguished
crying homeowner, and so on. The news media is so full of its own
righteousness that it can't see the exhibitionist quality to the
Tragedy Roadblocks. In contrast, listening to BBCWS after the London
subway bombings was quite refreshing-yes there was tragedy, but also a
defense of Islam from a British imam who called Pakistani madrasas
concentration camps. The Europeans tend not to rub your face in the
blood the way American media does.