[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: BBC "news"

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
BBC "news"
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1196191914.shtml


   [link thanks to [1]Boker Tov Boulder]

   At the end of [2]this article about the British schoolteacher who was
   arrested in Sudan for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammad,
   the Beeb specifically requests responses from the Rage Boy crowd,
   asking:

     "Are you in Sudan? Do you feel offended by what the teacher did?
     Should she be punished? Send us your views using the form below"

   Why that request, and why from those people? Given that it's the BBC,
   I'd guess their motives are either stupid or malign.

   [Link thanks to Irwin]

   [3]The Beeb hallucinates a Wall St meltdown:

     The history of Newsnight's nightly markets update has not always
     been a happy one. On Thursday we reported that in New York the "Dow
     Jones was substantially down amidst more credit crunch fears".
     That's odd, many of you told us, as - being Thanksgiving - Wall
     Street's finest were on a day-off. Our economics editor Stephanie
     Flanders was mortified - "unforgivable and embarrassing" was her
     verdict.

     This is, I am ashamed to say, not the first time we have made such
     a mistake...

   Quite...

References

   1. http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2007/11/omri-various-te.html
   2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7114439.stm
   3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/11/market_sentiment_1.html