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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 11-Apr-07
BBC kills an Iraqi war story because it's "too positive"

Web Log - April, 2007

BBC kills an Iraqi war story because it's "too positive"

But a drama showing British troops brutalizing civilians is perfectly fine.

Private Beharry was awarded the Victoria Cross in March, 2005, for multiple acts of heroism, risking his own life to save the lives of his own injured men, according to a Sunday article in the Telegraph. He was citied for "valour of the highest order" on two separate occasions a month apart.

The BBC commissioned a 90-minute drama, tentatively titled "Victoria Cross."

However, the BBC has now canceled the project, because it feared it would alienate members of the audience opposed to the war in Iraq, according to the article. "It needed to tell stories about Iraq which reflected the fact that some members of the audience didn't approve of what was going on. Obviously a story about Johnson Beharry could never do that."

<i>Daily Mirror</i> front page, November 4, 2004: "How can 59,017,382 people be so DUMB?"

Daily Mirror front page, November 4, 2004: "How can 59,017,382 people be so DUMB?"

I've written many times how blatantly anti-American the BBC is, and that extends to even UK's participation in the Iraq war. It's true of most of the UK press.

So they see no problem that UK's channel 4 (not the BBC) is planning to show a program called "The Mark of Cain," which shows British troops brutalising Iraqi detainees, according to the Telegraph article.

In 2004, the BBC was reprimanded after a long investigation resulting the the Hutton Report. The investigation showed that the BBC had purposely lied repeatedly, with the result that a government weapons expert committed suicide, rather than continue to be humiliated by the false BBC news stories. The BBC suffered large budget reductions, partially as a result of the Hutton Report.

American news channels are even worse, as when Donald Trump went on a hysterical rant on CNN that was played over and over and over for three days. CNN is also paying the price for its blatant anti-Americanism, as the Fox News Channel is kicking its ass in the ratings.

As I've said before, it's an absolute disgrace how most journalists and Democratic party politicians have bet their entire careers and credibility on American failure in Iraq. This kind of behavior may have been OK during the 1960s, when America was in a generational Awakening era, but one thing I know is that this behavior will not be tolerated for long in a generational Crisis era, such as we're in today. The Hutton Report and the ratings loss to Fox News are just two early examples of this. (11-Apr-07) Permanent Link
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