OK that’s a massive overstatement of absolutely mammoth proportions and actually, an outright bold-faced lie, but it’s the weekend, and another Hollywood awards weekend at that, and this blog entry is about how state-run media such as the CBC and the BBC cover stories. So truth isn’t the point.
I always call the CBC “the state-owned CBC division of the Liberal Party”. Regular readers know that very well, and it’s listed in my Lexicon for newbies. In actual fact, I call just about everything in Canada a division of the Liberal Party because it in fact is. Example: The “Federal Government division of the Liberal Party”. Thanks to the Gomery Inquiry and the Auditor-General, we’ve all seen how the taxpayer cash flows, and therefore that’s an accurate descriptor.
But the owner of News Corp., which owns Fox News channel, said that British Prime Minister Tony Blair confided in him that his own state-run BBC (gentler version of the state-run CBC division of the Liberal Party because more than 16 people watch it) was brutally biased against Americans and the Bush administration during its Katrina coverage.
I love it. Can you just imagine a Liberal Prime Minister ever saying anything such as that about their state-run CBC division here? To the Fox News Channel’s main man, yet?! Not even as a joke. Not ever, never. I’m literally giggling at the very thought.
Anyway, read on and spot the part where Mr. Murdoch speaks “Joel”. OK OK, I highlighted it for you in vibrant bright yellow. It’s an ego thing for me, much like the state-owned BBC is a government thing.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has complained privately to media tycoon Rupert Murdoch that the BBC’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina carried an anti-American bias, Murdoch said at a conference here.
Murdoch, chairman of the media conglomerate News Corporation, recounted a conversation with the British leader at a panel discussion late Friday hosted by former president Bill Clinton.
“Tony Blair—perhaps I shouldn’t repeat this conversation—told me yesterday that he was in Delhi last week. And he turned on the BBC world service to see what was happening in New Orleans,” Murdoch was quoted as saying in a transcript posted on the Clinton Global Initiative website.
“And he said it was just full of hate of America and gloating about our troubles. And that was his government. Well, his government-owned thing,” he said of the publicly owned broadcaster.
Murdoch went on to say that anti-American bias was prevalent throughout Europe.
“I think we’ve got to do a better job at answering it. And there’s a big job to do. But you’re not going to ever turn it around totally,” said Murdoch, one of three media magnates who spoke at Clinton’s “Global Initiative” forum on peace and development.
“The state-owned CBC division of the Liberal Party” is clearly more succinct than saying “that was his government. Well, his government-owned thing” every time. Obviously Murdoch is an extreme right-winger and a moron.
I liked the rest of the story too. Kinda puts me in an air of, I don’t know, liberals being mocked by a liberal deity for their hideously cheap and biased politicking since the Katrina hurricane struck….
The former US president, who held his conference to coincide with the United Nations summit in New York, agreed that the BBC’s coverage was lacking.
While the BBC’s reports on the hurricane were factually accurate, its presentation was “stacked up” to criticize President George W Bush’s handling of the disaster, Clinton said.
“There is nothing factually inaccurate. But … it was designed to be almost exclusively a hit on the federal response, without showing what anybody at any level was doing that was also miraculous, going on simultaneously in a positive way,” Clinton said.
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Weekends were made for this.
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