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Vile piece by the BBC's Barbara Plett (whose salary I pay) on the journey to France of Yasser Arafat:
Yet when the helicopter carrying the frail old man rose above his ruined compound, I started to cry... without warning...Despite his obvious failings - his use of corruption, his ambivalence towards violence, his autocratic way of ruling - no one could accuse him of cowardice.
Don't you just love the 'ambivalence towards violence'? Arafat is responsible for the deaths of more people than Fred West, Dennis Nielsen and Peter Sutcliffe combined. I wonder if Ms Plett will shed a tear for them when they are ill.
This is what passes for objective BBC journalism today.
(via Norm.)
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Why do you have to pay the licence fee if you live in Brussels?
And Harold Shipman.
The BBC has never been objective. It has always pursued a Fabian line, now morphed into hardcore Gramscianism.
Well, as soon as I hear he's kicked the bucket, I'm going to have quite a few drinks.
Also, what did you expect from the BBC!
Remember this was From Our Own Correspondent - not a regular news broadcast. FOOC is a strand of personal reportage, and as such Plett's examination of why she had such an emotional reaction to the departure of such a (as she acknowledges) flawed man is appropriate, even brave, material.
Also...
It is simple-minded to compare Arafat to killers like West and Sutcliffe - depending on your view of his actions he was either a lot better or a lot worse. The direct correlation is intellectually dishonest - an attempt to reduce a complex situation to a facile pantomime.
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