I posted this on Twitter moments ago:
I am shocked that the BBC reported in this way.
An explanation is needed, and very urgently.
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I could not agree more with your horror about this.
The BBC just don’t seem to be able to think anymore.
What is measured about reporting such details?
Maybe the BBC feels that it can only compete for air time by being populist?
Thank you and well said, PSR.
PSR: “The BBC just don’t seem to be able to think anymore.”
Another exhibit: Sending Romesh Ranganathan to Uganda and have him mock the locals. Does the BBC know what led to the expulsion by Idi Amin Dada of empire’s settler foot soldiers? One hopes Sara Lanier reads my comments and chimes in as Sara knows what I’m talking about.
Thank you, PSR.
I would say that there are many Reform sympathisers at the BBC.
So we had a protest outside a mosque despite only 2% of the population of Rwanda being Muslim, the figures I have seen say that its majority religion is Catholicism.
You just cant make this stuff up………….
Thank you and well said, Richard.
I was thinking the same before coming to your blog.
It’s been going on for decades and has also featured West Indians, to divert attention from racism, corruption and brutality in the police, and East Europeans, to build up support for Brexit.
Last autumn, I attended a talk by a former BBC producer turned filmmaker, currently filming a history of migration which will be of interest to everyone, and writer. He worked for over twenty years at the BBC and reported the racism at all levels. This echoed what I read by a former BBC contributor, who Richard may know as Rutland’s Marxist economist.
The BBC’s latest outrage is part of the MSM attempt to attack a source of support for Palestine. A few weeks before the election, a Labour official called that community “fleas”.
King Charles, born in London to a Greek father and a mother of German descent.
Rarely mentioned though, is it?
Thank you, Andrew.
Is there any truth to that rumour that she met his dad when she was on holiday?
I was once told that the Royal London Yacht Club had to change its rules so that Prince Philip could be a member.
… Royal Yacht Squadron, I believe, was reluctant to admit him.
@CLIVE PARRY. I stand corrected.
Well said ‘Andrew @ 8:36am’. Brilliant riposte !
I have not followed the BBC coverage – this is the first I have heard about where the perpetrator came from. Certainly not mentioned in the Guardian.
There can be no doubt, to state where this young man came from would be wrong when reporting on the murders. Full stop.
However, when reporting on the riots at a mosque it becomes quite difficult for reporters. Why have a bunch of thugs gathered to riot and attack a mosque? Very hard to explain that without reference to the murder’s background. Not saying it’s right…. merely that it is difficult.
Did the BBC report the origins of the murderer at the outset? (Very wrong)… or when reporting the riots? (more nuanced).
Before the riot
They have since said he has no connection with Islam.
Rwanda is at least notionally 98% Christian so any link is unlikely, albeit not impossible.
Thanks. That is terrible from the BBC.
Was he an illegal immigrant ?
He was born in the UK, apparently
Stop asking stupid questions.
Apparently there was a lot of social media traffic naming the perpetrator (wrongly, according to the police) and stating that he arrived in the UK on an illegal boat last year.
In view of that I can understand the BBC reporting that he was born in Cardiff, although stating he was born in the UK would have been equally true. However to then describe the country of origin of his parents is appalling.
Agreed
It was widely reported on Social Media by a far right fake news US website that the murderer was a fairly recent (muslim?) asylum seeker known to the police. It even made up a name for him.
I suspect that this played its part in stirring up the EDL
I wonder whether this is due to the make-up of the BBC Board:
Richard Sharp – Chairman BBC
Former Goldman Sachs banker, where he worked with Rishi Sunak Under investigation for being appointed to the role by Boris Johnson after securing Johnson a £800,000 loan. A major Tory party donor (£400,000). Board member of right-wing think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies. Donor to controversial Quilliam Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharp_(banker)
Tim Davie – Director-General BBC
Former PepsiCo Exec. Stood as a councillor for the Conservative Party in Hammersmith. He was a former chairman of Hammersmith and Fulham
Conservatives in the 1990s. As Director-General, he warned BBC staff to avoid ‘virtue signalling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Davie
Robbie Gibb — Board member for England
Former Tory aide and head of communications for Theresa May. Brother of Tory MP Nick Gibb. An ardent Brexiteer who said the BBC is “culturally
captured by the woke” Accused by Emily Maitlis after she had left Newsnight of being a ‘Tory agent’ who had actively influenced editorial policy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Gibb
John McAndrew — Director of News
Former Editorial Director and Director of News Programmes at right-wing media outlet GB News. The channel hosts five shows presented by Tory MPs and was found guilty by Ofcom of materially misleading the audience” during McAndrew’s tenure.
It seems that the curtains are twitching behind the Wizard BBC and the other lame stream media – when the very few who own and run the majority of ‘news’. So we are finally noticing?
Maybe too little and probably too late.
The BBC has still not retracted the 40 headless bablies and is not doing anything about the mass rape of Palestinian detainees using sticks and even trained dogs supposedly in retaliation by their prison guards!
Never mind all the dead children and civilians.
As the world is dragged to the long planned war by the targeted with a highly advanced missile, of Hamas leadership attending a forum to agree a peace in Tehran – a peace that NuttyYahoo cannot afford .
We are being dragged into a ‘civilisational war’ through such incidents and their framing. It won’t matter to the punters that they are mainly Christian in that colony Rwanda,, all they will remember is that he was foreign and there was some association with ‘Islam’ (that it was fake won’t register just as the fake headless babies don’t) and that the foreigners and Muslims are atttacking poor defenceless wholly innocent Apartheid colony in the Levant because … religion!
So prepare parents and grandparents, our, YOUR, young are going to be dragged to be forever little corners in the dirt of foreign lands that we claim for our imperial masters.
And never forget that there were years when we could have averted this but put our heads in the sand and ignored anyone who tried to stop this as being AS or Terrorist Lovers.
Self deludedly believing that it was nothing to do with what was going on in our Little Britain, as we smugly tried to tell the world how it can be saved!
Thank you, Ian.
One could add former Tory student officials and still members Laura Kuenssberg, Fiona Bruce and Nick Robinson, Kuenssberg’s husband, who was seconded from a big consultancy to advise the Cabinet Office on austerity during the coalition, and Bruce’s husband, whose firm advises the Tory Party.
I forgot to add that Robbie Gibb, William Shawcross and the BBC’s John Ware and one other person, none Jewish, own the Jewish Chronicle and use the paper to attack the left and stoke up the sentiments deplored above.
Sharp and Sunak also worked together at a hedge fund which included Brexiteer Crispin Odey, former son in law of Murdoch, as fellow shareholder. Odey had his own eponymous firm and was an investor in Somerset Capital, co-owned by Jacob Rees-Mogg, whose wife is a big landowner in Sunak’s constituency and influenced his selection after the local party preferred a local candidate, and another Tory supporting fund called Ruffer.
Good Lord.
It’s worse than I thought.
Thank you, PSR.
I think this is just the tip of the iceberg.
It is said that the BBC were trying to counteract the misinformation that this was a small boat Syrian muslim immigrant,
But the Merseyside police website just says the ,
“officers arrested a 17-year-old male from Banks and he remains in police custody.
A name has been shared on social media in connection with the suspect in the incident in Southport. This name is incorrect and we would urge people not to speculate on details of the incident while the investigation is ongoing. ”
BBC could just thave relayed police announcement – why didnt they?
And further this morning they have platformed Farage – suggesting the police are covering up by saying its ‘not terror related’, which comment Brendan Cox has condemned out of hand.
BBC have a decades-long record of platforming far right ‘opinion’ to ‘balance’ the science – Nigel Lawson – in particular which helped to delay climate action for twenty years. And every day they break their own editorial guidelines ‘not to mislead’/. Their guidelines should be monitored and enforced by an independent body. Despite their own denials – ‘balance’ is stilll their overwhelming principle – whereas ‘finding the truth’ using investigative journalism is almost completely absent – re ‘covid is over ‘ and ‘there is no money’
.
Thanks
The Farage comments and coverage are dire
Do we know that the suspect and his parents are British citizens? Your post implies that we do.
What business is it of yours?
What can be said corruption is rife in the UK as ever. Scammer & Co an obvious continuation of it!