Joe Borg, Xgħajra .
Left-wing bias
The BBC World Service are at it again. Their left-wing bias was made evident again in a broadcast by a John Simpson who chose to review the worldwide role of the United States in the most biased and uncomplimentary of ways, which does little credit to the BBC's reputation of objective and fair reporting of current events.
His technique was to focus on all the dubious areas of American foreign policy and cast doubt on American influence in the Middle East and blame a renewal of the arms race on the United States. And who does he cite to press home his opinion?
None other than Vladimir Putin, the President of a country which, for over 50 years, kept the world in a state of anxiety over the Cold War.
Mr Simpson found it more important to spout his anti-US propaganda then to acknowledge America's sacrifice of 4,000 lives in order to preserve his freedoms and liberty to criticise the greatest nation on earth. Mr Simpson and others like him owe a huge debt of gratitude to the United States for living in a world made safer by its endeavours.
One wonders why the BBC is exhibiting this left-wing tendency and straying farther and farther away from its precepts as set down in its Charter.
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julian falzon
Apr 1st 2008, 01:23
Every source has its bias but I must agree that the only thing that disturbs me about BBC and other national broadcasting services such as Australia's SBS and ABC is that they are funded by the taxpayer and therefore should at least be balanced with a whole range of views presented to the public. Unfortunately their committees are generally taken over by so called left wing liberals with their own aganda who then go on to promote like-minded people. Shame our money is being wasted. At least Berlusconi's channels are mediocre and can't be passed off as intelligent journalism as the BBC tries so hard to make us believe
Saviour Sammut
Mar 31st 2008, 15:38
Mr Borg sure doesn't whatch One or NET TV. Otherwise he would be writing documents of literacy about their bias and their pretentious right of existance notwithstanding that in the rest of the EU countries no political party is allowed to own a tv station. But, again, it's only in Malta... and then we pretend that we're living in some kind of democracy....
Mike O'Hara
Mar 31st 2008, 15:11
Steady! To my knowledge, Mr Putin was President of the Russian Republic, not the Soviet Union (with which the West locked horns for over 40 years).
This is like blaming today's Austria for the First World War.
Of course John Simpson is doing what a journalist should - look at today's facts.
There are many of us in the UK who have perceived the BBC's news agenda as right-wing over the years; just shows that they can't win. If one's perception of news comes from the Daily Mail or the Telegraph, the BBC will seem leftist, but only in comparison to the highly selective reporting by these organs.
Just rejoice that we are able to see different opinions and draw our own conclusions - people in North Korea would see our differences as trivial.
Mike
Adrian Borg Olivier
Mar 31st 2008, 14:57
Surely this letter has been written tongue-in-cheek. The BBC is about the only news organization remaining that continues to report factually what others like the Murdoch and Berlusconi type media taint with their extreme right-wing bias.
But what gets me most in this letter is not about the BBC but about the US. Surely the writer has been living in another planet. The US is the cause behind a lot of what has gone wrong in the world ( excluding earthquakes and floods) since the end of World war Two. Need we mention Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, Iraq twice. Can we ignore their continued propping up of dictatorial regimes in Pakistan,Egypt and Saudi Arabia or the billions of dollars spent annually protecting their Middle East oil interests by arming Israel with nuclear missiles and insisting that no other country should have such arms. Come on Mr Borg leave your set loudly tuned to the BBC . It might wake you up from your dreams.
Oh and by the way while of course everyone is sorry for the waste of 4000 US lives you might have at least mentioned the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives lost to protect US oil interests.
Clive Brockdorff
Mar 31st 2008, 12:31
This is nothing new. The BBC swung to the left long ago and these days one is quite hard-pressed to find truly unbiased reporting coming out of that particular news organ.
I usually don't have a problem with (clearly stated) bias, but this case, coming from a supposedly "unbiased" entity, funded by the British taxpayer, is unacceptable.
In the UK many journalists such as Melanie Phillips and Tom Gross deal with this issue and there is actually a website (Biased-BBC) which keeps an eye on proceedings.
H. Farrugia
Mar 31st 2008, 12:18
It's like the Times of Malta ... the BBC is going leftist. And the Times is once again being the lackey of the foreigners. Take illegal immigration and birdhunting. Always against the Maltese people.