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News Broadcaster. | 15.04.2013 22:27 | Iraq | Other Press | Terror War | World

The US reporting by the BBC is wall to wall, live and full to brimming with close up shots of injuries, endless shots of the injured accompanied with numerous interviews with security consultants keen to engineer the terrorist agenda. The same is true of Sky, RT, al-Jazeera and print and other TV media. There is no coverage at all of the situation in Iraq bar a few lazy, innacurate and badly written print reports on a few newspaper websites.

White blood, excellent quality, best price.
White blood, excellent quality, best price.


Today, a number of bombs exploded in Boston, US. killing two and injuring more than 50. On the same day, 18 bombs killed 32 Iraqi's and injured many hundreds all across Iraq. The Iraq bombings are far more serious than those that have occured in Boston.

The US reporting by the BBC is wall to wall, live and full to brimming with close up shots of injuries, endless shots of the injured accompanied with numerous interviews with security consultants keen to engineer the terrorist agenda. The same is true of Sky, RT, al-Jazeera and print and other TV media. There is no coverage at all of the situation in Iraq bar a few lazy, innacurate and badly written print reports on a few newspaper websites.

What is the difference between these attacks and what is the thing that differentiates the reporting?

The difference is this.

In Iraq, there is no media system available to beam these attacks live to the world in realtime along with stills, video clips, interviews and helicopter shots of the general view. There are no security consultants keen to exploit the atrocity for profit and there are no journalists keen to seek fame and fortune by syndicating their talents. Copyright content does not exist so exclusive licences cannot be offered and syndicated for profit among an affiliate system of profitable news companies keen to pay for good dramatic packages. Repeat syndication and licences cannot be offered so no profits are available to be had by selling this content to the rest of the world. In addition, the Iraqi people are not given to excessive displays of hysteria so don't make good subjects for panic shots and good audio. When an atrocity occurs, the Iraqi people do not have a Presidential system of government that can respond in real time to requests for media interviews and photo-opportunities, all within hours of the real-time event from happening.

Iraq do not have a cult cadre of political journalists whose purpose in life is to engineer conflict and disunity to facilitate war and conflict on behalf of their governments.

Iraq is not a free-market dictatorship in which blood and gore is most valuable if it happens to be white.

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not islamic, but right wing gun nuts?

15.04.2013 23:40

bombs in dustbins are not the hallmark of islamic jihadists.
im betting on some kind of right wing militia group or individual.

curious


Boston atrocities

16.04.2013 07:37

No-one knows what the situation is with the Boston atrocities yet, but, biased as media reporting of such atrocities is, it 's important to remember they're still atrocities (and no thanks for the repulsive picture btw - we already know what violence looks like).

Speaking of "lazy, innacurate and badly written" reports however, this piece says "in Iraq... there are no security consultants keen to exploit the atrocity for profit" - in Iraq there are THOUSANDS of security consultants constantly milking the bombings etc for massive profit

Libertarian socialist


They're all Fascists

16.04.2013 17:03

Whether it's Nazis, Jihadis or false-flag, in Europe, the USA or Iraq, they're all Fascists

Anti-Fascist


Whatever the position...

16.04.2013 17:20

..take down this picture. It is intrusive, unnecesary and traumatic for all of us.

jj


This is better.

16.04.2013 18:04

Sterile picture without blood or gore. No offence possible.
Sterile picture without blood or gore. No offence possible.

This is a better picture.

It doesn't show any blood or injuries and sterilises the viewers attention span. There is no way to take offence at this picture.

It is completely benign.

Anonymous.


Take down the picture

16.04.2013 20:15

I think Indymedia users are politically sophisticated enough to already have pretty a good handle on issues like opposition to war without actually having to see graphic atrocity pictures.

Most of us strongly, in most cases actively, opposed the Gulf Wars without needing to see all the gore. Credit radicals with a bit of intelligence

Jean


not very nice to the victims or their families

16.04.2013 20:34

.....to splash their picture all over the internet like this author has.

plus, they are bitching about iraq or something, about how the western media dont pin up pictures of iraq bombs because of......... "white flesh is more valuable?"

WTF????????????!

Is it actually possible to get more racist?


Just in case you really are that ignorant...........
The reason that the story is plastered all over the western media is because it happened on the homeland. It doesn't matter what colour the victims are, if they were all brown, it would still be plastered all over the media, because it happened on the homeland. Want proof? a load of white soliders get killed in iraq and it aint plastered all over the media to this extent

So quit your racist bullshit trying to stir up racist feelings

Geddit?

getout


Hmmmm.

16.04.2013 20:54

"I think Indymedia users are politically sophisticated enough to already have pretty a good handle on issues like opposition to war without actually having to see graphic atrocity pictures. Most of us strongly, in most cases actively, opposed the Gulf Wars without needing to see all the gore. Credit radicals with a bit of intelligence"

I took the picture away and read the sentiment of the words again.

They weren't as strong. In fact, they became completely benign.

If you are who you claim you are, that at least would have been abundantly clear.

Mike


Grrrr!

16.04.2013 20:58

"Just in case you really are that ignorant...........The reason that the story is plastered all over the western media is because it happened on the homeland. It doesn't matter what colour the victims are, if they were all brown, it would still be plastered all over the media, because it happened on the homeland. Want proof? a load of white soliders get killed in iraq and it aint plastered all over the media to this extent So quit your racist bullshit trying to stir up racist feelings. Geddit?"

I live in England. America is not our homeland.

I don't need to see it broadcast as though it happened in my own town.

Geddit?

Mike


mike the man without a remote

17.04.2013 01:30

I dont need to constantly see east enders because i dont love in london

My solution is to turn tv off or change channel
I've had to do this for many many years
Im sure you can manage same for a few days without whining about how difficult it is

getout


this is not the USA

17.04.2013 09:01

' Get Out: 'The fact that the British media prioritises US lives over those of other countries particularly the countries where British forces invade and occupy is a valid complaint. Your comment on UK Indymedia that the atrocity in Boston occurred in 'the Homeland' is pretty dumb whichever way you look at it.

geography


Go back to bed.

17.04.2013 09:13

" My solution is to turn tv off or change channel 
I've had to do this for many many years 
Im sure you can manage same for a few days without whining about how difficult it is"

I would like to turn my TV off and just ignore but you see I have to pay for it. Im not going to be told to stop using something I have to pay for.

The BBC is wrong...and I am right.

Its coverage of the Boston Bombings was not objective and even worse, was dripping with ethnic centrist bias towards white Americans. The BBC's coverage of news in the US is entirely different from its reporting elsewhere in the world.

This bias should not be funded from the public purse. We should not be forced to pay for what is clearly politically sponsored purification of the news.

Mike


market forces

17.04.2013 16:39

maybe you should write a letter to the bbc, or apply for a job there so that you can get involved witht decision making process of how they do the news.

Personally, i think if they didn't show what was going on the US, and just showed what was happening in iraq to great lengths, people would just switch over to Sky News instead......... because no one is interested in what is happening in iraq to any great length.

The BBC gives the people what they want. If they didn't, everyone would switch over to a different service who gave them what they want instead.

And what people dont want, is racism towards white people.


What "You" want is not necessarily what the statistical majority want.
deal with it.

getout


Garbage choices.

17.04.2013 18:56

"maybe you should write a letter to the bbc, or apply for a job there so that you can get involved witht decision making process of how they do the news."

I don't need to do that because I pay people to do that. I pay them a couple hundred thousand pounds per year to do that job. Why on earth would I pay them that amount of money only to have to go through the tiresome palava of getting up each morning to go and do their jobs for them? Would you do that? No you wouldn't.

"Personally, i think if they didn't show what was going on the US, and just showed what was happening in iraq to great lengths, people would just switch over to Sky News instead......... because no one is interested in what is happening in iraq to any great length."

Don't willfully misundertand me. I am not saying that it isn't news. I am saying that it isn't important news as far as we here in the UK are concerned. The BBC reported this as one long newsflash over the course of about 22-28 hours. All other news was relegated in favour of this "Breaking News from America". They did this because an American life is clearly more important to the world than, say, the life of an Iraqi. This is how the BBC think. Nobody except the BBC knows why!

"The BBC gives the people what they want. If they didn't, everyone would switch over to a different service who gave them what they want instead."

No. The BBC is more concerned with giving the people what the BBC wants.

"And what people dont want, is racism towards white people."

But that is exactly what the BBC is giving us. A white American is worth more than a black Iraqi. If it weren't true, the BBC wouldn't behave in the way that it has, and this article would never have been published.

"What "You" want is not necessarily what the statistical majority want. deal with it."

But what "I" want is of huge importance to the BBC. Not a day goes by in which they are not asking for "my" view, appealing for free-use of "my" pictures, requesting free use of "my" video for their web pages and news broadcasts, incessantly seeking "my" opinion on the critical topic of the day. Everything they publish demands the addition of "my" view. What "I" believe is the cornerstone of the entire output of the BBC, without it, they have no product.

It is bizaare that you would say that the BBC does not care about little old me, are you a Communist?

I am afraid you need to bone up on reality fella.

Mike