BBC UK Politics feed added to Revisionista
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 at 2:56 pmI’ve just added the BBC UK Politics section to Revisionista, so articles from it will be monitored for changes from now on.
I’ve just added the BBC UK Politics section to Revisionista, so articles from it will be monitored for changes from now on.
I’d just like to thank you for you Stirling work on this site. The BBC just censored one of my posts on the Oscars and your site has logged it.
There’s been a lot of censorship recently on “Have Your Say” topics regarding Chavez and Iran. Both I and a number of friends have had posts censored. None of them were at all offensive. e.g. Here is mine.
Perhaps the BBC should have pointed out that Similar powers were also granted to Carlos Andrés Pérez
(1974), Jaime Lusinchi (1984) and Ramón José Velásquez (1993). The powers are limited and can be taken away. I would also ask why the BBC has only reported the viewpoint of the US in it’s recent article and not other large countries such as Russia and China. The US view is not the world view. If Russia takes a dislike to a particular leader, will the BBC keep writing reports about him?
The problem is, with Full Moderation you never really get to see the censorship of these posts since they never make it to the board even once.
The BBC also has an Editors Blog (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/not_taking_sides.html#commentsanchor) where you are encouraged to send comments. A recent blog was on the topic of the BBC Taking Sides. I posted the following comment, but the Editors obviously didn’t like it because it never saw the light of day.
It is worth making it clear that the BBC does not see it as its job to be on anyone’s “side”.
If that is the case, why has the BBC engaged in so much scaremongering over Chavez? You keep having headlines like “Chavez Gets Sweeping News Powers” and publish the opinions of the US but not those of other countries. The BBC failed to point out that three other Venezuelan Presidents had similar powers and one of them was a strong US ally. Also, the US view is not universal. In fact it has one of the most extreme views of Chavez in the world. It’s like writing an article on the performance of the current Israeli government, but only asking Hamas for their opinion. I wonder, if Russia took a dislike to the president of a particular country, would the BBC keep writing articles about that president and then only asking the opinion of Russia?
I am also highly suspicious of the “Have Your Say” article on Chavez. Both myself and a number of friends made posts about the BBC’s important omissions but they were not published. Yesterday I made a post to the new Iran topic pointing out that both the CIA and IAEA have found no evidence of a weapons program and yet again, my post has not been published. How long are the BBC going to go on pretending that posts are not being selected via the moderators personal preference? None of the posts I have mentioned violated your “House Rules” in any way. I and hundreds of others are becoming very tired with the BBCs censorship on “Have Your Say”.
Is there a particular reason why the How can Hamas and Fatah work together HYS was not picked up on this site?
This site is amazing, thankyou thankyou thankyou.
anon: I don’t know why the “Hamas and Fatah” HYS thread was missing. It certainly wasn’t excluded by the News Sniffer on purpose. Most likely there was just a glitch in the BBC rss feed at the time.
I’ve investigated and found threads before and after that date but can’t see why that one might have been missing. I’ll look further later. Thanks for the report.