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Title: Is BBC News "colonial" in its attitudes?
Post by Reithian on Mar 12^th, 2002, 10:37am

According to a Guardian report today, World Service executives have complained to News about the language and tone of coverage of the elections in Zimbabwe.

Quoting unnamed sources, the Guardian says Bush House was particularly upset about an edition of Correspondent, the language used by Today presenters and the use of phrases like "the BBC is banned from Zimbabwe". This is because the African Service has reporters inside the country.

You can read the Guardian story here

Title: Re: Is BBC News "colonial" in its attitudes?
Post by luke on Mar 14^th, 2002, 11:59am

It really is not a "colonial" issue... most of us - both sides of the argument - are a generation away from that.
But it is a clash of western and african cultures... your side of the fence...there's no question the poll was rigged... there's too much evidence to deny that... and even if domestics stand accused of being whitey, that's just nowhere near enough to diss their output... sure world service sources (who they, hmmm?) can have their go... but in the end, there is a hard fact reality...
more crucially, whither the Commonwealth, eh? for too long it's just about survived... tottering mainly on the freebies for heads of state and government and their legions of officials ...
luke