BBC manipulating Iranian election coverage?
Busted: BBC Caught In Mass Public Deception With Iran Propaganda.
News corporation uses photo from pro-Ahmadinejad rally, claims it represents anti-government protest.
"The BBC has again been caught engaging in mass public deception by using photographs of pro-Ahmadinejad rallies in Iran and claiming they represent anti-government protests in favor of Hossein Mousavi.
An image used by the L.A. Times on the front page of its website Tuesday showed Iranian President Ahmadinejad waving to a crowd of supporters at a public event.
In a story covering the election protests yesterday, the BBC News website used a closer shot of the same scene, but with Ahmadinejad cut out of the frame. The caption under the photograph read, ‘Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi again defied a ban on protests’.
The BBC photograph is clearly a similar shot of the same pro-Ahmadinejad rally featured in the L.A. Times image, yet the caption erroneously claims it represents anti-Ahmadinejad protesters."
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Hmmm the BBC supposedly changed the headline, but looking at the two photos I think maybe they really were different rallies.
photo 1
photo 2
Speakers in one and also the blinds in curtain blinds in the way back building.
BBC radio OK
I don't know about the above post, but I listen to the BBC every day and their radio reports seem to be, as always, good and fair. They are probably the best news organisation in the world, but nobody is perfect.
You're kidding right?
The BBC is British Pravda. Its funded by a "license fee" tax on TV ownership and blasts government propaganda to the world via the BBC World Service.
"I believe the true significance of the Gold Commission is that the politicians and central bankers were so alarmed at such a thing that they made sure it was packed by an array of Keynesians and monetarists." (Ron Paul 1985)
Same thing with any regime considered "hostile" in the west.
The worst example of this was the 2002 CIA backed coup attempt in Venezuela. The media coverage was distorted worse than a Salvador Dali painting.
The coup failed when the presidential palace guards turned on the new junta. The coup plotters escaped to Florida.
I'm not saying that Chavez or Ahmadinejad are nice guys - far from it - but foreign tyrants are generally divided into two groups: pro and anti.
It was once said of the Latin American dictator Somoza, that although he was a sonofabitch, he was OUR sonofabitch.
Remember in the 1980s when Saddam Hussien was considered a good guy?
"I believe the true significance of the Gold Commission is that the politicians and central bankers were so alarmed at such a thing that they made sure it was packed by an array of Keynesians and monetarists." (Ron Paul 1985)
I'm pretty sure these are
I'm pretty sure these are the same rally. The speakers are not in the BBC pic because the photo is taken closer to the crowd. Obviously, it is in the same location, look at the trees on the left. The crowd might have been waving more flags and signs when Ahmadinejad was speaking. That's why the crowds looked different I don't see that much of a difference with the blinds. I believe the BBC pic was taken before the speach, and the LA Times one obviously during. The blinds could have changed within that time.
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WOW dailypaul starts to delete comments too! Only because I accused Israel of having a major hand in manipulating the elections?
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Wow, I am totally shocked.
A news organization misrepresenting reality? I this possible? The media trying to sway public opinion? Please, say it isn't so.
What else are they here for? Creating public opinion.
hmmm on second though....
Hmmm the BBC supposedly changed the headline, but looking at the two photos I think maybe they really were different rallies.
photo 1
photo 2
Speakers in one and also the blinds in curtain blinds in the way back building.
Good eye
The orange awning in both photos is proof positive that they are from the same rally.
hmm
I don't think so. The crowd has different colors too.
The speakers and the curtains are the obvious difference to me though.