Thursday, July 10, 2003

It's our old pals at the BBC
Porphyrogenitus weighs in with a review of the BBC's Iran coverage:
So I just listened to a BBC World News Service radio report on Iran and the student movement (Julian Marshal was the anchor that hour).

It focused on how much better things are in Iran since the revolution, on reformers in the Iranian parliament, and the emphasis was on the young people just wanting change to go faster than was reasonable. They did mention some arrests, but the focus was on how much freer everyone is in Iran these days. From the BBC report, one would have absolutely no understanding of the reasons behind the protests, except that they're ungrateful that progress isn't going faster than it is (but how things have improved! - great emphasis was placed on a split between the young people who just don't get it and the older people who were around in the early days of the revolution and understand just how good things are in Iran now).
More by following the link, but somehow the BBC asshats never mentioned the goat faced mullahs running the place with the assistance of brutal vigilante thugs. Andrew Sullivan provides more (and some pictures) and observes:
How do these BBC apologists for theocratic terror live with themselves?
Good question. It was bad enough when the leftists would defend Stalin's every drunken stagger, but these medieval Islamic whack jobs can't even claim to be the "vanguard of the proletariat".

UPDATE: The Wog Blogger enlightens us on BBC fare:
I have just seen a promotion for a BBC program shortly to screen. Called ... wait for it ... Holidays in the Axis of Evil.

Really.
Pesky little varmints aren't they?