Posts Tagged ‘BBC’
I’ve banned myself from watching any corporately owned news media, whether it be radio, print, digital or television. I think this is a good thing for the sake on my mental wellbeing. This leaves me with the myriad of alternative media outlets that exist (but for those who don’t know them, probably require a little [...]
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Tags: BBC, Corporations, guardian, media, Murdoch, news, newspaper, radio, tv
According to this BBC ‘News’ story, Ilham Anas of Jakarta has a life of fame ahead of him as an Obama lookalike…
“I see my resemblance to Obama as a blessing – I used to look at the mirror and I had a negative perception of myself”
Wow, imagine how he’d feel if he actually looked like [...]
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Tags: BBC, media, news, Obama, politics
BBC Bizarro World
Is it only me, or is there something very odd about the BBC News website article below?
“A senior US official has described as a “significant step” Portugal’s offer of asylum for some inmates from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay…In a letter to EU members this week, Portugal urged them to follow its lead.
The [...]
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Tags: BBC, China, guantanamo, media, media bias, news, politics, US
Black Aint British?
Since Barack Obama’s election victory in the US there seems to have been an outbreak of self-flagellation here in the UK media with commentators asking if we’ll ever have a black Prime Minister. Things are a little different when you look at how things work here in the sense that a lower percentage of the [...]
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Tags: BBC, black prime minister, dizzy rascal, hip hop, media, newsnight, Obama, paxman, race, US election
This is just a quick entry to recommend a couple of excellent features on Iran, one appearing on the BBC website (a picture slideshow accompanied by narration by a British guy who lives and works over there…interestingly, one picture features a couple of men hugging in a public shoping area… I wouldn’t try that in [...]
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Tags: BBC, geopolitics, Iran, Israel, New Statesman, politics, sanctions, US/UK imperialism
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