October 23 , 2006

BBC Admits It Loathes America

If you’ve ever experienced the hair raising hostility and knee jerk anti-American bias in a lot of European news coverage, a piece in the London Mail on Sunday newspaper is a must read. Some of the revelations in the Simon Walters article titled We Are Biased, Admit the Stars of BBC News:

-“(BBC)Washington correspondent Justin Webb said that the BBC is so biased against America that deputy director general Mark Byford had secretly agreed to help him to 'correct' it in his reports. Webb added that the BBC treated America with scorn and derision and gave it 'no moral weight'.”

-“…BBC executives admitted the corporation is dominated by homosexuals and people from ethnic minorities, deliberately promotes multiculturalism, is anti-American…and more sensitive to the feelings of Muslims than Christians.”

-In one exercise on “pet hates” in which network staff were to throw pet hates into the trash bin, “Nearly everyone at the summit” agreed the Bible could be thrown into the trash, but not the Koran “for fear of offending Muslims.”

-“…the BBC's 'diversity tsar' wants Muslim women newsreaders to be allowed to wear veils when on air.”

A colleague of mine reacted by saying, “Okay, they've acknowledged the problem. Now what are they going to do about it?”  The answer of course is…probably not much, now. But in the new media era, outfits that don’t reflect the values of most news consumers will be swept aside for other choices.