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PM demands apology for BBC "anti-Americanism"
The Prime Minister has demanded that the BBC apologise "with absolute unconditionality" for alleged anti-American bias in its coverage of the effects of Hurricane Condi.
Earlier in the week, the Prime Minister had apologised for the BBC's coverage "with unconditional absolutivity" to media entrepreneur Rambot Murdchuck, the Australian-born American citizen who owns all Britain's news media apart from the BBC and the Peebles Morning Herald.
The BBC had "gloated with sadistic relish" over the suffering of an innocent nation, and had indulged in "conduct worthy of a ravening, unthinking beast" rather than the independent news agency which the Government paid it to be, the Prime Minister said.
The BBC has not yet responded directly to the charges, but former director-general Andrew Marr said that BBC journalists had probably been "weak rather than wicked".
He pointed to reports on the flagship programme Newsnugget in which reporter Myron Flatt stated that the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, when America was attacked by terrorists, had "forced the US to become a nation-builder in the Middle East".
"Of course this could be taken as implying that America has to be forced into doing good, but you have to remember that professional journalists don't always have time to phrase things as neatly as they would like," Mr Marr said.
On the subject of Hurricane Condi, Newsnugget anchor ffyona Bruce-Bumstead had claimed that the Commander-in-Chief showed "a personal note of penitence" for Washington's inability to neutralise looters with sufficient promptitude.
It is believed that Ms Bruce-Bumstead's utterance has infuriated the White House, as it may provide grounds for personal lawsuits against the Commander-in-Chief by implying that he in some way accepted responsibility for bad things happening in the United States.
In fact, an inquiry authorised by the Commander-in-Chief and headed by the Commander-in-Chief exonerated the Commander-in-Chief of all such responsibility, but it is unclear whether Newsnugget, in attempting to balance its reporting on the hurricane, gave this fact sufficient emphasis.
The Prime Minister has demanded that the BBC apologise "with absolute unconditionality" for alleged anti-American bias in its coverage of the effects of Hurricane Condi.
Earlier in the week, the Prime Minister had apologised for the BBC's coverage "with unconditional absolutivity" to media entrepreneur Rambot Murdchuck, the Australian-born American citizen who owns all Britain's news media apart from the BBC and the Peebles Morning Herald.
The BBC had "gloated with sadistic relish" over the suffering of an innocent nation, and had indulged in "conduct worthy of a ravening, unthinking beast" rather than the independent news agency which the Government paid it to be, the Prime Minister said.
The BBC has not yet responded directly to the charges, but former director-general Andrew Marr said that BBC journalists had probably been "weak rather than wicked".
He pointed to reports on the flagship programme Newsnugget in which reporter Myron Flatt stated that the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, when America was attacked by terrorists, had "forced the US to become a nation-builder in the Middle East".
"Of course this could be taken as implying that America has to be forced into doing good, but you have to remember that professional journalists don't always have time to phrase things as neatly as they would like," Mr Marr said.
On the subject of Hurricane Condi, Newsnugget anchor ffyona Bruce-Bumstead had claimed that the Commander-in-Chief showed "a personal note of penitence" for Washington's inability to neutralise looters with sufficient promptitude.
It is believed that Ms Bruce-Bumstead's utterance has infuriated the White House, as it may provide grounds for personal lawsuits against the Commander-in-Chief by implying that he in some way accepted responsibility for bad things happening in the United States.
In fact, an inquiry authorised by the Commander-in-Chief and headed by the Commander-in-Chief exonerated the Commander-in-Chief of all such responsibility, but it is unclear whether Newsnugget, in attempting to balance its reporting on the hurricane, gave this fact sufficient emphasis.
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