BBC self-destructs
Mar. 31st, 2003 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321I just spent 30 minutes screaming at the television set. The one redeeming feature is that they're so clueless about building an ideologically seamless propaganda, sorry *news*, report, that they contradict themselves every 2 minutes.
Yes, British forces have taken Abu-whatitsname, the largest city in the region! (Yeah, and Cambrige is the largest city, too, in the region of Cambridgeshire - whoopeedoo. All depends on how you define a region, I guess.) This amazingly large town and key centre (well, next to a key centre which they have *not* yet taken) has the unbelievably large number of 200,000 inhabitants. 1 min. later, the number has suddenly swollen to 'a quarter of a million'. Hello?? "There are still pockets of resistance." Er, I thought it had been "taken" in the first decisive British "victory"?
And here, let's have some visuals: extensive "arms caches" were found. Cue picture of some debris and a rotting bucket in what looks like soemone's shed.
O, and the people are delirious to be liberated. Images of happy boys jumping and up ensue. More images of smiling happy boys. More images of happy, smiling boys and men kissing A4-size photos of Saddam Hussein. Poor old BBC, can't even censor its own footage properly.
Actually, I should have taped it. It was worth preserving.
Yes, British forces have taken Abu-whatitsname, the largest city in the region! (Yeah, and Cambrige is the largest city, too, in the region of Cambridgeshire - whoopeedoo. All depends on how you define a region, I guess.) This amazingly large town and key centre (well, next to a key centre which they have *not* yet taken) has the unbelievably large number of 200,000 inhabitants. 1 min. later, the number has suddenly swollen to 'a quarter of a million'. Hello?? "There are still pockets of resistance." Er, I thought it had been "taken" in the first decisive British "victory"?
And here, let's have some visuals: extensive "arms caches" were found. Cue picture of some debris and a rotting bucket in what looks like soemone's shed.
O, and the people are delirious to be liberated. Images of happy boys jumping and up ensue. More images of smiling happy boys. More images of happy, smiling boys and men kissing A4-size photos of Saddam Hussein. Poor old BBC, can't even censor its own footage properly.
Actually, I should have taped it. It was worth preserving.