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BBC Scraps Hero's Story
The Victoria Cross is the highest award for valor in the armed services of Great Britain. Private Johnson Beharry earned this badge for heroism in Iraq, as he rescued his comrades from an ambush that, among other things, left him wounded and requiring brain surgery. However, the BBC has scrapped plans to turn his story into a 90-minute drama because the tale is "too positive" and may turn away viewers opposed to the Iraq war. The decision, for many, has substantiated claims that the BBC is committed to telling bad news coming out of Iraq.
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Ah, so much for objectivity by PowerPointSamurai :: NR7 :: Show
So much for their excuse of being objective, impassive observers and reporters of events. The fear of losing viewers who will disagree with what they see is a common accusation of Fox News, is it not? Isn't BBC also the same network who insisted on credulously repeating Comical Ali's claims that US troops were slaying themselves at the gates of Baghdad when they were in fact parked under the saber arch? Did they not steadfastly refuse to state anything to the contrary when contacted by US forces to correct their claim?
This network appears to have a clear cut case of severe post-modernism, and cannot even stand by their claim of merely reporting objectively if they can't even report the facts without selectively trashing stories like this. I believe Edward R. Murrow once said something to the effect that we all have biases, it's just important that we recognize them. In this case, BBC seems to be in denial about their biases.