By © Muhammad Haque
London 0845 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 24 February 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Evidential note and commentary on the BBC reporting on the alleged surprise on the part of UK press at claims of human rights violations....
What is the ‘alleged surprise’ about?
It is about the KHOODEELAAR! point that the allegations as made by the just-returned detainee through his ‘lawyers’ on Monday 23 February 2009 could not possibly be new or unknown until then.
The SAME principle objectively applies to the actual agenda that is followed by and through the ‘mainstream’ [and the sub-streams and side-steams] of the ‘British media’ and the media in Britain.
The same also applies to the agenda as followed by the BBC.
The fact that these various outfits are organizationally [as in their administrations] different from one another does not at all mean that they are ideologically different.
The ideology that allows the operation of Big Business Military Industrial Complex in the UK and at the expense of the needs and the rights and the entitlements of ordinary people is also the ideology that allows the collusion by the media and by the BBC with the suppression of day to day truth. It allows the BBC to lie on the little things. It allows the mammoth BBC brainwashing programme to go on daily.
The denial of the truth is maintained via the BBC putting on shows that bear superficial resemblance to truth while persistently suppressing the truth.
As happened during the rubber stamping of the Crossrail Big Business scam through the UK Parliament.
Today’s BBC fakery about the fakery of the ‘British press’ on the alleged allegations about Guantanamo Bay is an example of the untruthful role the BBC is in place to perform
Guantanamo Bay detention centre had been about torture and other human rights abuses.
Any self-respecting, truth-telling newspaper of the ‘democratic, western, civilised’ world would have known of those…
So the feigning of surprise and the stuffing of the papers’ spaces with the incidental reference to the atrocities and the violations are continuing the lying….
And that actually does exactly what Guantanamo was doing – violating human rights and everything that goes with the values of human rights…
KHOODEELAAR! is making the evidential note as another item of evidence of the bias against telling the truth that dominates the UK press. And the BBC.
This applies to internal UK constitutional and the role of the UK executive and of the Opposition.
Overall, the culture is of suppressing the truth and of only telling the truth under pressure.
Not good enough.
The British media does behave in this persistently dishonest, duplicitous way that directly denies the principles of democracy and exposes as a sham the claims the media makes of being all for democracy and transparency and truth…
[To be continued]
From BBC online:
24 February 2009
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Guantanamo debate occupies papers
The newspapers all focus on former Guantanamo Bay inmate Binyam Mohamed, who has flown back to the UK.
According to the Times, the US prison camp was an affront to the world, and its inmates must now find justice.
However, it says, that does not mean making Mr Mohamed a hero. But there is no danger of that from the Daily Mail.
According to its columnist Richard Littlejohn, the "usual useful idiots" will have a field day with the case, filling their boots with legal aid.
Bricks and mortar
The Daily Express vents its outrage that managers at the nationalised bank Northern Rock are getting bonuses.
Still having a job, it says, is quite enough of a bonus to be going on with.
The Guardian's Polly Toynbee thinks pent-up demand for housing is still high because property speculation is hardwired into the British brain.
She calls for a tax on future gains. But suggest that to MPs, she complains, and they blanche, "even while agreeing that it should be done in theory".
Van damned?
The papers focus on the troubled van manufacturer LDV - and its Russian owner Oleg Deripaska, a friend of Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.
A report in the Independent insists that the government is "not prepared to contemplate a bailout".
But the Daily Mirror advises ministers against playing "Russian Roulette with 6,000 jobs in the motor industry".
It warns of angry workers "who see billions loaned to reckless banks but see their own appeals roundly ignored".
Hollywood magic
Every title is filled with pictures from the 2009 Oscars ceremony.
All agree with the Daily Telegraph - "it was a great night for the Brits", Slumdog Millionaire winning eight gongs and Kate Winslet scooping best actress.
"Britain's fabulous night at the Oscars," says the Sun, "was a scriptwriter's fantasy come true."
The night was, it adds, "a reminder in these tough times that, with grit, energy and a touch of genius, we can still lead the world where it counts".
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