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Was that on satellite? On BBC One about 0:11 to 3:55 was replaced with these title cards. The version on iPlayer starts at 3:55.

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BBC One aired the signpost, but they forgot to do anything for the BBC News Channel, so the full 4 minute disaster played out there.

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Exceptional

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life imitating art… this from 2008:

YouTube: Zebooker

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Yes, that’s right, the Holocaust is a sensitive topic for Muslims because Jewish survivors settled in Palestine.

I’ve never seen anything so insensitive, and frankly repulsive, published before (no wonder it was removed).

This anti-west, anti-Israel, anti-Jewish form of far-left activism is now entrenched in the BBC and most far-left media.

“The Holocaust is a sensitive topic for many Muslims because Jewish survivors settled in British-mandate Palestine, on land which later became the State of Israel.”

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The BBC have since altered the article I think, I can’t find that passage you quoted.

[quote=“Firetorch, post:25, topic:1071”]
I’ve never seen anything so insensitive, and frankly repulsive, published before (no wonder it was removed).

This anti-west, anti-Israel, anti-Jewish form of far-left activism is now entrenched in the BBC and most far-left media.
[/quote]Holy hyperbole Batman!

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You know it’s true. The antisemitism that is now pervasive in the left is disgusting.

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I think there’s very scant evidence of anti-Semitism being worse on the left than it is on the right.

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:rofl: :joy: You’re joking, right?

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Interesting interview with former BBC man Jeremy Paxman, on the biased, politically correct organisation a public broadcaster like the BBC has become. Parralels with the ABC?

“Of course there is political correctness at the BBC. I would have to say that the BBC is a parastatal organisation. They believe in the state. And not to recognise that there are those issues there is just silly.”

And what are those issues?

“Partiality. There is a way of looking at the world if you are part of the BBC and a different way if you work for a commercial organisation. Why is the story always about the disabled refugee from Syria, rather than the demands that the disabled refugee from Syria might make upon our taxpayers? That’s all too common. It’s a metropolitan-elite problem, isn’t it?” he concludes.
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There was, as I remember, a pronounced distaste for its endless stupid meetings, its plethora of superfluous executives, all covering their arses, and its suffocating political correctness.

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It’s concerning the amount of right-wing bias on the BBC nowadays, with all those crappy commercial newspaper covers :’( http://www.newstatesman.com/2017/05/right-wing-newspaper-headlines-bring-bias-bbc

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BBC has ended its current newsgathering deal with ABC America and has switched its US affiliation to CBS, effective immediately.

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It’s a much better fit. ABC has gone downmarket of late with very sensationalist reporting primarily on domestic issues and human interest stories, whereas CBS remains a little more international. I doubt ABC had much use for the BBC’s resources and vice versa.

Peter Jennings would be rolling in his grave at the current state of ABC News.

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What’s BBC’s partner in Oz?

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I think it will be ABC and SBS, since BBC provide them with news footage.

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I’m pretty sure both the ABC and SBS are partners with the BBC, with both of Australia’s major public broadcasters even going as far as airing full BBC News programs at times.

If I’m not mistaken, the commercial networks have partnerships with ITN and/or Sky.

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The steamy striptease could be clearly seen by the show’s 3.8million viewers on an office computer screen behind oblivious presenter Sophie Raworth.

The footage was being watched by a BBC colleague wearing headphones and slumped in a chair.

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We seem to be seven years ahead of our time in Australia. Remember the Macquarie Bank employee caught looking at pics of a scantily clad Miranda Kerr in the background during an interest rate decision cross during Seven News? Wonder if he ever lived that down.

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It turns out that the clip being watched in the background wasn’t porn after all but an episode of True Blood. Anna Paquin and Robert Kazinsky.

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What about PBS?