As I watch this BBC report, I can't help but compare it to our national television news both broadcast and cable. Our networks have become jokes in how they report, always with hyped emotional sensationalism (ABC the worst offender), soundbites and political slants. There is no sober, matter of fact reporting as in this BBC report. The BBC report even acknowledges, even handedly, that it could be an intentional explosion or one of neglect, whereas the USA so-called news departments make a big deal out of President Trump saying it was intentional and all in the name of politics.
At one time up until this new century, most of the USA national networks offered news like this BBC report, sober, not aligned with political positioning and straight forward and unemotional. Those days are long gone in the USA and so is authentic news reporting.
At one time up until this new century, most of the USA national networks offered news like this BBC report, sober, not aligned with political positioning and straight forward and unemotional. Those days are long gone in the USA and so is authentic news reporting.
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Bee here:
I am praying for the people of Lebanon, and am so sorrowful of what has happened there. It is a shock beyond belief. Truly, the first reports (without video) seemed to be reporting a sad, but manageable situation. The magnitude of what happened became apparent however with various videos of the incredible shock wave and resulting devastation.
It is truly beyond comprehension. May God help them in this horrific tragedy.
God bless.
Bee
The BBC is quite good at covering incidents like this, but a lot of its current affairs programmes display a left-liberal bias which is so endemic that its practitioners probably don't even recognize it as such. This was particularly noticeable last year with the way it covered the implementation of the Brexit plan.
This wouldn't matter were it not for the fact that the Corporation's revenue is derived from the licence fee, a tax imposed on every household with a television receiver, whether or not they watch the BBC channels. At present this is £156 per annum, and failure to pay is a criminal offence.
Sooner or later the BBC will have to become a subscription service, a prospect which fills its executives with alarm.
From Aid to the Church in Need
"The destruction caused by the 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate which exploded inside a warehouse was immediate, its impact intensely felt by the Christian quarter.
Our ACN Lebanon expert, Father Samer Nassif, said that the Christian zone of Beirut was “completely devastated.” Ten churches were destroyed, 300,000 people have been made homeless, livelihoods destroyed and suffering incalculable.
“In one second, more damage to the Christian quarter of Beirut was done than throughout the long years of the civil war. “We have to build it again from the ground up,” Father Samer told us."
John Nolan spot on. As for America journalism died a long time ago.
John Nolan,
I am not British, so unlike lefties in the US, I generally refrain from commenting on matters outside the US but I would like your take.
Was the BBC at one point a straight (honest) news service or was it always like cBS (fake but accurate?).
Pierre
During WW2 people in occupied countries would risk their lives tuning into the BBC. Of course during the war the BBC and the press were subject to strict censorship. The BBC World Service is, I believe, still trusted to be impartial.
Television news (and it's not just the BBC) has of course to be edited. What it reports, and the importance and priority given to what it reports, is subject to partiality. In Britain, as in the US, the academic and cultural milieus have been left-liberal for some time now. A clear majority in England (outside London) actually vote Conservative, but for the metropolitan elite they might as well be on another planet.
When ministers of a democratically-elected government decline to take part in the BBC's flagship radio current affairs programme because of its alleged partiality, then it is clear there is something wrong.
As long as the BBC insists on recruiting from a narrow base of like-minded individuals, it will only get worse.
John Nolan,
Thanks for your response. In the US, the media is 95% left-wing (and pretty stupid too).
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