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Kathy Gyngell: Lessons In BBC Newspeak. Don’t Say Pro-Abortion, Say Pro-Choice
By : A couple of weeks ago Emily Watson wrote on this site that Britain is on the cusp of a re-education programme in Orwellian Newspeak. Leading this programme is our national broadcaster - the BBC. The BBC is in a uniquely powerful position to alter perceptions and manipulate meanings.
That of course is what its Charter obligations are meant to protect it and us from - from exploiting its position as the national broadcaster, by stringently complying with the principle of impartiality.
That of course is what its Charter obligations are meant to protect it and us from - from exploiting its position as the national broadcaster, by stringently complying with the principle of impartiality.
But if we needed an example of how far the BBC has transgressed in this duty – which we don’t – it would be this extract from the BBC’s Style Guide (the document which dictates how BBC journalists write) on the issue of abortion.
This applies whatever your personal views are on the matter.
This, if a reporter is covering an abortion debate in Parliament for example, is what he must do:
"Avoid (the words) pro-abortion, and use pro-choice instead. (Because)
Campaigners favour a woman's right to choose, rather than abortion itself. And use anti-abortion rather than pro-life, except where it is part of the title of a group's name”.
Unbiased? Neutral? Impartial? I think not.
This applies whatever your personal views are on the matter.
This, if a reporter is covering an abortion debate in Parliament for example, is what he must do:
"Avoid (the words) pro-abortion, and use pro-choice instead. (Because)
Campaigners favour a woman's right to choose, rather than abortion itself. And use anti-abortion rather than pro-life, except where it is part of the title of a group's name”.
Unbiased? Neutral? Impartial? I think not.
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UN Rules Julian Assange Is “Arbitrarily Detained”
By Paul Craig Roberts: The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled that Wikileaks’ Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained by the “democratic” governments of Sweden and the UK and is entitled to his freedom and compensation for detention by the two “democratic” governments.
At the beginning of Assange’s arbitary detention, I said that the detention was in violation of the rights of asylum and is akin to the Soviet Government’s refusal to allow Cardinal Mindszenty free passage from the US Embassy in Hungary when he was granted political asylum by the US government. I pointed out that in our time Washington now behaves like the Soviet dictatorship half a century ago.
The illegal actions of the Swedish and UK governments were on the orders of Washington, the corrupt government of which is determined to get Assange for publishing leaked documents revealing the criminality and mendacity of the US government.
Washington and its UK vassal claim to be defenders of the rule of law, but, of course, both governments are lawless. We will see if the rulihg has any effect on the behavior of “the two great champions of liberty.” My prediction is that the gang of criminals in Washington will not allow its vassal governments to abide by the UN decision. I hope that I am wrong.
At the beginning of Assange’s arbitary detention, I said that the detention was in violation of the rights of asylum and is akin to the Soviet Government’s refusal to allow Cardinal Mindszenty free passage from the US Embassy in Hungary when he was granted political asylum by the US government. I pointed out that in our time Washington now behaves like the Soviet dictatorship half a century ago.The illegal actions of the Swedish and UK governments were on the orders of Washington, the corrupt government of which is determined to get Assange for publishing leaked documents revealing the criminality and mendacity of the US government.
Washington and its UK vassal claim to be defenders of the rule of law, but, of course, both governments are lawless. We will see if the rulihg has any effect on the behavior of “the two great champions of liberty.” My prediction is that the gang of criminals in Washington will not allow its vassal governments to abide by the UN decision. I hope that I am wrong.