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I'll leave the Guardian thing to one side as I simply do not know enough about the matter (even though I consider it 'my' newspaper). But I do think what you've said is a load of melodramatic, pompous hogwash. Like most of your posts.
But on the BBC, you're completely and utterly incorrect. In fact, if the BBC were guilty of those things the government would come down upon the corporation like a tonne of bricks. Impartiality is written into its charter, and has a high level of restriction placed upon it. It even carries a news item during the morning broadcast where complaints over the BBC's news coverage from the public are addressed by the appropriate journos.
The BBC is the finest news you can find anywhere, and is widely well-regarded across Terra. I'm afraid your ridiculous, over-baked opinions say far more about yourself than the reputation of the BBC.
EDIT: Lets make this interesting, actually. Give me an example of BBC reporting (and the Guardian, if you like) that displays it as "biased against Bush, America, Israel, and (neo)conservatism. They carry an attitude towards Islam reminscient of historical second class citizens in Islamic states and Neville Chamberlain, except there was not a war with Naziism at Chamberlains time." Go on, dare ya.
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Hello kids, and welcome to Peewee's Playhouse. Today's secret word is ad hominem.
Also, Pravda was probably trusted in the USSR. That doesn't make it reliable. Eugenics was loved by damn near everybody before and even a little bit after WW2. You are both using appeal to authority and appeal to numbers.
Example #1:
http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com
Has found and debunked huge wads of BBC doublespeak and nonsense.
Example #2:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/3192861.stm
On question 10, the "correct" answer is C. While Islam does indeed not entirely reject Judaism and Christianity, is sure as hell does not respect Jews and Christians as "People of the Book". Nearly all of these verses (made when Mohammad was in Mecca) are superseded according to hundreds of years of Islamic jurispredence (
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013367.php).
Example #3:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religi...am/index.shtml
They address Mohammad with "Peace Be Upon Him". Yet on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religi...ty/index.shtml
they do not refer to Christ as "the Lord". If the BBC is so impartial, it should either refer to Mohammad as a Prophet with PBUH's and Christ with the Lord title. And the Holy Land is something held to Islam, so you can't use that to argue they've been pro Christian on that page.
Example #4:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/wor...000/521164.stm
They refer to the Holy Land as Palestine thousands of years before the Romans occupied and renamed it Palestine to perform an etymological insult to the Jews. It would be like calling the Byzantines or Romans Italians.
Guardian Example:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlo...814725,00.html
The usual crap about "poor wittle opwessed Muslims being dawntrawden by teh evil West and only the glorious prawcess of neegoshiatain can saave us!".
If Muslims are so oppressed, why is Osama heir to half a billion? Why do even conservative outlets like FOX kowtow to terrorist front group CAIR? (
http://www.anti-cair-net.org). Why the huge amount of kowtowing in Europe towards Islam during the cartoon wars (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...ns_controversy) and the hosting of a ridiculous crybaby conference by the EU? (
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatc...ves/011531.php) Blaming "Islamophobia" (how one can have an irrational fear of Islam is utterly beyond me) for the bombings is like blaming Naziphobia for the Holocaust.
I despise the BBC and even more the Guardian because I view them as both embodiments of the Golden Mean Fallacy ("the middle ground is always correct") and the kind of idiot who sits back screeching about some splinters in Western eyes while not bothering to see the forest in the Islamic one and railing against the very systems and civilizations that have given us freedom of speech and human rights. And if this makes me longwinded, call me the AntiStattik.