http://news.ft.com/cms/s/933f0642-270a-11da-b6fe-00000e2511c8.html

Quote :

"Blair ‘shocked’ over BBC Katrina coverage By Joshua Chaffin and Aline van Duyn in New York Published: September 17 2005 00:38 | Last updated: September 17 2005 00:38 Tony Blair was shocked by the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, describing it as “full of hatred of America”, Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, revealed on Friday night. Mr Murdoch, a long-time critic of the BBC who controls rival Sky News, said the prime minister had recounted his feelings in a private conversation earlier this week in New York. "

9/16/2005 10:26:06 PM

I guess the BBC doesn't take marching orders from elected officials.

9/16/2005 10:35:16 PM

unamerican?

well yeah, it is from a different country

9/16/2005 10:35:17 PM

^anti-american = unamerican?

9/16/2005 10:43:02 PM

according to Webster's, anti-American means "opposed or hostile to the people or the government policies of the U.S."

9/16/2005 10:54:40 PM

Unamerican is defined as "Considered contrary to the institutions or principles of the United States."

Sounds pretty similiar to me.. I don't see what the problem is.

9/16/2005 10:59:14 PM

Being unLavim simply means that I am not you, because I am LoneSnark. Being anti-Lavim means I am in favor of you not existing, in contrast to you being not me.

9/17/2005 1:08:21 AM

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=unamerican

Quote :

"Being unLavim simply means that I am not you, because I am LoneSnark. Being anti-Lavim means I am in favor of you not existing, in contrast to you being not me."

^ In the context of a country the two words have essentially the same meaning, although I'll grant in many situations they do not. In this context, I'll also grant that 'anti' has a stronger meaning. However, they are still essentially interchangable.

On another note, Sky News has always sounded like something out of Starship Troopers.

[Edited on September 17, 2005 at 2:02 AM. Reason : (If anyone has read the great book and not watched the horrible movie)]

9/17/2005 1:54:51 AM

I'm not sure if it happened in record time, but it didn't take long for this thread to veer wildly off course.

9/17/2005 10:55:42 AM

Rupert Murdoch

9/17/2005 11:08:01 AM

well
when a country fucks up like this
it should be covered as such

9/17/2005 11:49:01 AM

^^ so Murdoch controls Blair now? goddamn how the mighty have fallen. Go from being W's lapdog to Murdoch's bitch.


huh.

9/17/2005 11:59:44 AM

no, murdoch controls the only real competition for the BBC



and, he is the one who told the world about this

9/17/2005 12:04:31 PM

When I think of an objective source, I think Rupert Murdoch.

9/17/2005 1:18:14 PM

exactly

9/17/2005 1:18:34 PM

Bill Clinton apparently criticized the BBC's coverage today as well.

Quote :

"Bill Clinton, the former US president, and Sir Howard Stringer, chief executive of Sony Corporation, also criticised the tone of the BBC’s coverage during a seminar on the media at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York."

http://www.thebusinessonline.com in the first story, direct link too long


[Edited on September 17, 2005 at 5:51 PM. Reason : ]

9/17/2005 5:50:39 PM

I wonder what they were saying in Europe when that heat wave they had a few years ago killed 10s of thousands of people, over 10,000 in France alone.

9/18/2005 2:20:50 PM

^ George Bush was at fault!

9/18/2005 2:31:39 PM

Quote :

"I wonder what they were saying in Europe when that heat wave they had a few years ago killed 10s of thousands of people, over 10,000 in France alone."

I dunno about European media, but I recall that Fox News guys freakin' loved it. They smugly pontificated about the failings of the socialist system and how the French deserved serious punishment.

9/18/2005 2:45:11 PM

George Bush doesn't care about French people.

9/18/2005 2:46:15 PM

^why should he? what have they done in the fight for freedom?

these european liberal media stations are a JOKE.

9/18/2005 11:14:33 PM

well they gave us a big ass metal statue of a giant chick.

9/18/2005 11:26:22 PM

^ They were cool back then. They've changed, not us.

9/19/2005 9:38:30 AM

Quote :

"George Bush doesn't care about French people."

LOL

9/19/2005 1:03:16 PM

THE BIG GIRL

9/19/2005 1:25:39 PM

THE USA OF 1886 IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS IT IS NOW!

I SWEAR GUYS!

[Edited on September 19, 2005 at 5:53 PM. Reason : !!!!!!SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!]

9/19/2005 5:52:33 PM

meet the new robber baron, same as the old robber baron

9/19/2005 5:54:15 PM

5 cents a barrel for petroleum?

OUTRAGEOUS!!!

9/19/2005 5:56:42 PM

for what its worth, "un" means "not," while "anti" means "against."

thus, unAmerican != anti-American in the general case.

9/19/2005 6:10:28 PM

I dunno, in my opinion, pretty much every news station's coverage of Katrina could be classified as anti-American.

9/21/2005 5:52:27 PM

Watch them back off it now that you mentioned Clinton. They'll be all like, well, I mean...he has a point now

9/21/2005 6:20:13 PM

I read BBC coverage during the whole thing.

I'll agree their editorials were a bit biased. But, then again, they're supposed to be.

Most of their news was no different than FOXNEWS or MSNBC in my eyes.

They had logs from reporters on the ground at the Superdome, Mississippi, the Convention Center, and such that was giving a timetable and how things were progressing real time that was very unflattering, but if that's the truth, so be it.

Heck, Shepard Smith on FOXNEWS was getting incredibly pissed off at the federal government when I was watching one time. If there's anyone that would be most on the Bush administration's side, he'd be a candidate.

9/21/2005 6:28:43 PM