Comments on: BBC website solicits tips on Iraq troop movements

By: BBC bias & ‘Notes From The Previous War’ - Denis Boyles « Tony Blair

Sat, 02 May 2009 10:51:44 +0000

[...] June 2007: BBC website solicits tips on Iraq troop movements [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Dog bites man: Hamas member working for the BBC

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:21:01 +0000

[...] And to think, I thought the biggest absurdity of the Alan Johnston kidnapping would be Hamas playing the role of hostage negotiator. Exit question one: Why would an infamously left-wing news organization employ members of a genocidal religious fascist group? Hmmm. Exit question two: I guess this solves this mystery, eh? Exit question three: Why on earth would the Beeb go to the trouble of hiring Hamas when it can hire useful western idiots to do the same job? [...]

By: Pilgrim

Pilgrim — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:26:19 +0000

Trying to make nice with a hostile media has been yet another failure by the Bush administration to fight this war seriously.

ReubenJCogburn on June 22, 2007 at 2:26 AM

Amen brother. The President has been far more “Compassionate” than “Conservative” with these…people. They have needed a visit to the woodshed for 7 years now.

By: ReubenJCogburn

ReubenJCogburn — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:26:13 +0000

The enemedia, like the rest of the Left, want us to lose this war, and have been actively undermining it since day one. Why they’re given anything like the kind of access they have is utterly beyond me, considering that they aren’t on our side. You never had to worry about whether guys like Ernie Pyle were rooting for our guys to win, but unfortunately you can’t take patriotism for granted any more. If it was up to me, the press wouldn’t get anything but releases from the Public Affairs Office several days later, and you can’t convince me that my way wouldn’t result in more live Americans and more dead tangos. Trying to make nice with a hostile media has been yet another failure by the Bush administration to fight this war seriously.

By: F15Mech

F15Mech — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:49:41 +0000

Romeo13 on June 21, 2007 at 3:32 PM

I agree with Romeo13, That is why the media does not need to know about troop movements until after they occur.

The media is using stringers in Iraq, the objective of the stringers is not verifiable.

No one can say what will happen if the info is passed onto them in the name of “getting a story”.

It is basic OP-SEC.

By: Janos Hunyadi

Janos Hunyadi — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:09:41 +0000

Isn’t the BBC an official media organ of the British Government

No. It’s an autonomous ‘government corporation’ supported primarily by a yearly tax that all British owners of TV sets pay.

Yes, if you own a telly in the U.K., you pay a yearly fee, and most of it goes to the BBC. So, no commercials, but both of their networks are a Constant Non-stop Commercial for socialst PC bullsh+t

By: Misha I

Misha I — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:02:21 +0000

It sounds like maybe they simply wanted to know where the action was so they could relay the info to their people in Iraq and send them to the scene. Or am I missing something?

No, Allah, you’re absolutely right.

And while we’re on that subject, I’d like to draw everybody’s attention to the sad plight of a group of people unfairly arrested and, in some cases, executed during WWII by that war-mongering, censoring fascist, Churchill.

I am talking, of course, about the many innocents rounded up and imprisoned for lurking around British ports, sending communiques about convoy schedules back to the legitimate German media who only wanted some accurate information to print, dammit!

The interest of the general public, don’t you know?

By: naliaka

naliaka — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:18:13 +0000

Isn’t the BBC an official media organ of the British Government?
With a new Prime Minister coming in who’s signalling with bonfires that he’s hard Left on the War, what does this little activity forebode?

By: unamused

unamused — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:56:36 +0000

There is no justifiable reason to solicit anyone but official command about the movements of troops, period.

By: It's Our Wits That Make Us Men

It's Our Wits That Make Us Men — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:47:34 +0000

An Almost Teenage Fascination With Fashionable Cau…

Yes, the BBC is biased. And it turns out, water is wet….

By: Mark V.

Mark V. — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:04:51 +0000

Even so, AP, wouldn’t they do better to get that info from the military, on the QT? I’m sure they’d love for the media to actually send people where the troops are so they could report first hand, and accurately, instead of trying to report the war from the balcony of a Baghdad hotel.

By: Canadian Imperialist Running Dog

Canadian Imperialist Running Dog — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:54:00 +0000

Perhaps the militaries should have looked at this as an opportunity, either to misdirect them, or lure them into ambushes?

By: csdeven

csdeven — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:22:03 +0000

The only media that should be allowed in Iraq are MM and Bryan. We know and trust them to tell the truth and not help the enemy in doing so.

By: Alarming News

Alarming News — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:10:05 +0000

How to lose a war…

I’m not a military strategist but isn’t the whole point of setting a trap to have an element of surprise? And, doesn’t Reuters reporting on that trap limit that element? The US military said on Thursday it was setting a……

By: Tim Burton

Tim Burton — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:59:28 +0000

I think it is time for the US to bomb the ~~BBC~~ HQ of the enemy’s Military Intelligence.

By: fogw

fogw — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:27:41 +0000

Or am I missing something?

Well maybe …. like BBC’s track record, for example.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:23:58 +0000

What next?

On the scene hints about the ‘weakest areas’ in coalition body armor?

Which are the most effective shapedcharges you’ve seen in the field?

Crazy, brainless mofo’s!

The possibilities for online sedition/treason are endless using this model.

By: rplat

rplat — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:51:44 +0000

Any entity that puts our soldiers at risk and threatens their lives should be regarded as an enemy of the United States . . . and that includes the BBC or any other left wing media organization.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:50:34 +0000

According to Yon most recent post, any reporter in the TOC would know just about everything happening in-theater. That isn’t enough of a gem for Beebers in reporting the news first and bestest?

Oh damn, I forgot, it would probably be light on reports from enemy sources.

By: TheBigOldDog

TheBigOldDog — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:50:21 +0000

AlexB on June 21, 2007 at 3:42 PM

I wonder if you have felt the same way on D-Day and the BBC was asking for information on troop movements so they could relay the info to their stringers in France so they would “know where the action was”

Please.

By: TheBigOldDog

TheBigOldDog — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:46:27 +0000

If you want to really understand why the BBC knowing anything that affects operational security is such a big issue, read the link below. Just having that information known inside BBC HQ is potentially life threatening. LGF Exclusive: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?

By: Attila (Pillage Idiot)

Attila (Pillage Idiot) — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:44:41 +0000

Sympathetic to the jihadis or not, it really doesn’t matter. They have no business with the information about troop movements they were seeking.

Why not let the rest of us have the same information — or highly classified information of some other kind — if we don’t plan on publishing it? Information is classified for a reason. We don’t let individuals and organizations make the decisions for themselves.

By: AlexB

AlexB — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:42:03 +0000

But have they really sunk so low?
…
It sounds like maybe they simply wanted to know where the action was so they could relay the info to their people in Iraq and send them to the scene. Or am I missing something?

“Never suspect malice when [gross] incompetence will do.”

And I agree with AP… they prolly just wanted to know where the action was.

By: TheBigOldDog

TheBigOldDog — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:41:56 +0000

If the military wanted the BBC to know where they are going, they’d tell them. Plenty of journalists embed. The BBC by publicly seeking information from outside sources for potential transmission back to Iraq and/or publication puts lives at risk. You don’t think they were going to rush a British reporter to some dangerous scene on their own do you? More likely, they relay the information to a local stringer who is part of the insurgency. The British people know that and hence the outrage.

By: Stormy70

Stormy70 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:37:02 +0000

Dude, all the employees at the BBC are sympathetic to the jihad. They practically prostrate themselves at the feet of the Palestinian terror groups, and consider the US and the British soldiers as the enemy. The BBC are on the other side in the fight against terrorism, and they were up to no good with that “request” for troop movements.