BBC gloats over Zimbabwe crisis
MrK - Opinion
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:48:00 +0000
DEAR EDITOR - " Britain's strategy on Zimbabwe is indeed very chilling as her BBC gloats over our inflation rate. "
I don't think they will have much to gloat about for very long. This financial crisis can get very ugly indeed.
Who knows, perhaps it will be Zimbabweans who will be gloating over Britain's misfortunes, if they were so inclined.
Seriously though, I don't understand what happened to the BBC. Someone decided to throw away its reputation which was carefully built up over a century, and for what?
Who are these mercenary 'reporters' who are the mouthpiece for the MDC (or is it the British government) and make the BBC look like ridiculous to the world? And who are the directors who hire them and worse, don't fire them?
Is Michael Grade to blame? What happened to the likes of Charles Wheeler or Robin Denslow?
Something is very wrong at the BBC.
MrK
COMMENTS - This is an e-mail I sent to TalkZimbabwe and that was published there. I stand by the point I made - what happened to the BBC? Why did their 'reporters' throw all rules of professionalism and objectivity out of the window when it came to reporting on Zimbabwe. If they had not, they would have had a very intrigueing story on their hands, on how the media is being manipulated by the west's regime change artists; how it was the British government that unilaterally undermined the 'Willing Buyer, Willing Seller' land reform program, walking out of their obligation to make up to 2 billion dollars available land purchase from white farmers in Zimbabwe; how the MDC only discovered 'democracy' and was only founded in 1999 after land reform in 1997 and how most of it's members were ZANU-PF themselves. But my biggest disappointment was with the low quality of reporting and relentlessly anti-ZANU-PF slant given to their reports, that has characterized their reports and frankly has sullied it's reputation. And for what? I miss the old school reporters who would do what they could to report all sides of the issues, or maybe I'm looking at the past through rose coloured glasses. Because even back in the 1980s, the one glaring point of view that was missing in reporting on South Africa was the view of the ANC. So who knows.
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