WintonsWeek - U.S. Hurricane Reporting By BBC, British Media A Disgrace


	Wintonsweek U.S. Hurricane Reporting By BBC, British Media A Disgrace Ignorance Of America, Urge To Score Cheap Points Is Shameful Is U.S. Hatred Down To Jealousy, Stupidity, Or Superficiality? The British media is a piece of work. Milliseconds after a disaster, the scale of which even the BBC correspondents on the spot don’t seem to understand, British journalists slip easily into scapegoat mode. BBC know-it-alls are telling us how pathetic the Americans are because they’ve been caught short by the biggest natural disaster since, well the Tsunami last December. No matter that the area devastated is the size of Britain. These blinkered haters of America are sure of the facts. America is incompetent. If it’s not incompetent, it’s racist. Sure, it couldn’t have been much fun to have been in the New Orleans SuperDome when the generators packed up and the plumbing failed, but disasters on this scale aren’t for solving next day, even if you are the world’s most advanced economy. And why were these people still in New Orleans? Surely they must have known about the warnings. After all, we were told that about a million inhabitants of the city had been evacuated. Then, the BBC was suggesting in its supercilious, smug way, that Americans, (what a bunch of cowards), were fleeing in such numbers from a mere storm. Most of these evacuees were black, according to the film that I saw. Sure, a percentage of the remaining people couldn’t move because they were infirm or didn’t have cars. But I’d be fairly certain that many that stayed were either too stupid to heed the local government’s advice, or thought that if they remained, there would be some fat pickings to be had by looting houses of those who had fled. BBC reporters relentlessly pursued the obviously mentally retarded. It didn’t matter how loopy they were, all they had to do was say something bad about President Bush, or Republicans, or America. It wasn’t just reporters from the BBC though. Just about every major newspaper was full of superficial anti-American garbage. Even the Sunday Telegraph showed that it was really rather ignorant about America. “It is not America’s commitment to individual liberty that should be reassessed: it is the role of central government, whose failures prior to the disaster – the most glaring of which was to fail to organise the evacuation of those in hospital – have exacerbated it,” The Sunday Telegraph said in an editorial. Surely the Telegraph knows that the United States of America is called that because the states have autonomy in most areas of government. Any failure of evacuation would be down to the state of Louisiana, not the Feds in Washington. I’m not sure why I said “even the Sunday Telegraph” because in the same issue its sub-editors let through a crass error on its letters page. It carried a letter signed by supporters of David Davies for the Tory party leadership, and listed “David Davies” as the first signatory to the letter! Idiots. Mind you, ever since the Sunday Telegraph ran a cartoon last year showing President Putin of Russia with blood on his hands, after many of his innocent citizens were murdered in cold blood by Muslim maniacs in Beslan, I’ve been going off this paper. On Sunday morning’s Radio 5 Live, a BBC reporter was going on about how incompetent the Americans were. If there was a similar disaster in Britain, we would do much better. Everybody seemed to agree. Don’t these idiots know that John Prescott is the deputy prime minister? The idea that the Labour Party would have the ability to lead the country smoothly out of a Force 5 hurricane is simply laughable, but typical of the shameful America hating that I’ve been listening too on the BBC, and reading about in our pitifully superficial and inept media. They all jump on the bandwagon, particularly if the target is cheap and easy like America. Out come the silly notions only spoilt children take on. It’s embarrassing to read and hear these petty people desperately trying to score points against a society that is superior in every way to our own Labour party screwed up nation. Later in the Radio 5 Live programme on Sunday the interviewer found a British tourist who had lived through the SuperDome debacle. But she was quickly turned off when it transpired that many people had been generous to her, and she was clearly not about to say that all Americans were idiots, George Bush in particular. That’s the level to which the BBC has sunk. Neil Winton – September 5, 2005 Top