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Forum Topic: I love the BBC

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Britkid

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Posted at: 7/2/08 06:19 PM

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At 7/2/08 06:10 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: Yes, I'm sure. Now if you wouldn't mind releasing your crushing political hold on the 4 other nations that surround you

As if that means there's an 'anti-Scottish trend' going on! Also, 'crushing'? Supplying Scotland with a far greater proportion of money per person, as well as virtual self-governance is 'crushing'? Get a clue.

and all have a much richer culture and history

Substantiate this rubbish, please.

and aren't crawling with immigrants? Turns out that we're not too happy with it.

What do you have against immigrants? Come on, you said the words, now back them up.

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Ach, you whinging good-for-nothing Scots. When did yous produce any sporting talent whatsoever? Yuore all whiskey-loving bagpipe playing alcoholics!

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At 7/2/08 06:07 PM, yurgenburgen wrote:
I'm English, and I couldn't care less about your sports stars. Whether they're Scottish or British or whatever makes no difference to me. So stop this "Fuck all you English!" shit like we've got some sort of anti-Scottish trend going on. We haven't. We do not care.

Don't hit me with that shit, the exact same thing happened in the winter Olympics, websites headlined the British team's semi-final victory over Canada "England stuns Canada" Personally i find that hillarious considering every member of the BRITISH team was actually SCOTTISH. Then later on in the week the British (read London) media began the full racist views, even the BBC's Olympic anchor man, Steve Rider, was caught saying "a British success story is turning into a Scottish failure".

Yeah, and we are making a big deal over nothing!!!!


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At 7/2/08 06:19 PM, PinkBeer wrote: Ach, you whinging good-for-nothing Scots. When did yous produce any sporting talent whatsoever? Yuore all whiskey-loving bagpipe playing alcoholics!

Sir, you forget yourself!

I love the BBC

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property.

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At 7/2/08 06:21 PM, g-muff wrote: Don't hit me with that shit, the exact same thing happened in the winter Olympics, websites headlined the British team's semi-final victory over Canada "England stuns Canada" Personally i find that hillarious considering every member of the BRITISH team was actually SCOTTISH.

Let me just get in touch with my close friends who made these websites you're speaking of so they can rectify their mistakes.

Then later on in the week the British (read London) media began the full racist views, even the BBC's Olympic anchor man, Steve Rider, was caught saying "a British success story is turning into a Scottish failure".

So write to the idiots who did this and rant at them. I assure you that you won't be taken seriously if you open the letter with "Fuck all you English!"

Yeah, and we are making a big deal over nothing!!!!

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Scotland- the land of the useless lunatics

I love the BBC

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At 7/2/08 06:26 PM, MickTheChampion wrote: Sir, you forget yourself!

I say! That dreadful scottish ruffian has laid his hand on an Englishmen. Were I not too busy sipping ones tea and deliberatley refering to Murray as a Brit when he's losing and a scot when he's losing one might be inclined to challegne the blighter to a duel.

However, a true gentlemen doesn't do such things himself. I shall just send in my Polish immigrant workers in my place.

Seriously though Mick, me thinks you're being paranoid. The BBC tends to use the terms Brit and scot/english/welsh (delete as applicabe) as interchangeable words. He gets called a scot because if you keep on referring to someone as just a brit, it gets boring, so they liven it up. You can normally see this a iot in news when someone gets referred to by their age and the town they're from. They thorw it in as padding and to make it less repetitive.

It's not a giant vendetta against the scots or anything of the sort. It's just a way to make it seem less repetitive.


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At 7/2/08 06:36 PM, PinkBeer wrote: Scotland- the land of the useless lunatics

So it seems!

I love the BBC

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property.

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At 7/2/08 06:36 PM, PinkBeer wrote: Scotland- the land of the useless lunatics

Say what?

I love the BBC


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I have no idea what you tea heads are talking about.

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At 7/2/08 07:30 PM, lilcheeselad wrote: I have no idea what you tea heads are talking about.

I'm sorry, we can't hear you due to you being too obese.

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At 7/2/08 07:12 PM, g-muff wrote:
At 7/2/08 06:36 PM, PinkBeer wrote: Scotland- the land of the useless lunatics
Say what?

i have new respect for you =D

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Lol. That's pretty good.

I watched a [British] program that showed BBC bias, how they report things differently and use certain words at certain times for different things to cunningly to shape things based on their bias. They quoted BBC board members who admitted that they have a policy of intentionally undermining the US and reporting as negatively as they can on certain other things, while being intentionally overly positive of some. The editors intentionally shape reports for political purposes.

For instance, it showed how both on TV and on their website, if they talked about a NASA space mission, or some scientific advancement in the US, they'd almost never mention "US" or "American". They'd either name the organization, or the individual with no reference of nationality. But in the same segment or article, they'd quote specifically "British" or "London-based" people who weren't even involved in it, but would comment on it... thus trying to make it appear as if British people were involved in what was actually an American achievement. While they almost never credited things to Americans or the US, they would clearly do it for people of other countries. If there was a scientific breakthrough in the UK or in Europe, they'd name "English scientists" "UK scientists" or "Dutch researchers" or something. They'd only mention the US or describe something as "American" if their was a subtle critique or negative taint to the topic.

Also, a BBC reporter talked how his editor told him to change the wording in an article, because it's BBC policy to undermine and belittle the US military specifically. The reporter wrote an article about Russian Bear bomber planes going on patrol and flying into UK territory, and US territory. The proper term for jets being used to intercept incoming planes is called "scrambling". For instance "incoming Migs, scramble the F16s". When the article covered the US part, they author of the article was told by the editor that he had to exploit the typical reader's ignorance of the military term "scramble" to make it appear that while US planes were caught off guard to meet the Russian planes, UK planes casually intercepted the Bombers. It said something like "American jets scrambled when the Russia plane approached", but made it appear as if the UK military action was very organized and methodical, saying something like "RAF fighters were sent up to meet the Russian bombers". They use very subtle ways of warping news to convey a political point. Very sly propaganda basically.

It may not seem like that big of a deal, and sometimes articles won't employ the same bias but on the program I watched, they compiled statistics and showed that there was like a 50 to 1 ratio of negative coverage compared to positive coverage of the US. There was a consistent trend of subtle differences, which happened so often and so exclusively to coverage of the US, that it was undeniable that there was a meticulous effort and it wasn't just a coincidence or different writing/reporting styles of individuals at BBC.

That may not bother you, and you may claim that American media is more biased (which I dispute). But yeah, the BBC is full of shit.

Anyway, I have the program saved on my TiVo, I'm trying to figure out how to put it on my computer and upload it on youtube in segments.


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At 7/2/08 07:58 PM, cellardoor6 wrote: Lol. That's pretty good.

Do you remember the name of that programme? Sounds quite interesting. But I'm sure, if the BBC find it so easy to mislead the audience, that must have exaggerated a little bit when they made that documentary.

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