BBC ‘Reports’ News

in the early morning on Monday, the 6th of August 2007 by Chad

What the hell are the quotes around kill for? Should part of this article say “Wink wink nudge nudge know what I mean?”

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5 Responses to “BBC ‘Reports’ News”

Andy Says:
August 6th, 2007 at 10:41 am +0
The quotation marks are because they are quoting a source. That’s what quotation marks are for.
Scott Kirwin Says:
August 6th, 2007 at 6:05 pm +0
They quoted the word “Kill” as opposed to “invited him to dinner” which the BBC would have done - being the polite and fair-minded chaps they are.
Scott Kirwin Says:
August 7th, 2007 at 6:55 am +0
Using the BBC quotation-marks-in-headlines, I came up with some of my own headlines:

Churchill Promises to “Fight” Germans on Beaches - speech 6/4/1940

Roosevelt Claims Japanese “Attacked” Pearl Harbor in Congressional Address - speech 12/8/1941

Gandhi “Killed” by Fellow Hindu - Eyewitness account of Gandhi’s assassination by Robert Stimson for the BBC on Jan 30, 1948.

American “Steps” on Moon - July 21, 1969

BBC “Biased” On Religion and Politics - Internal BBC Memo 2006
Chad Says:
August 7th, 2007 at 6:56 am +0
Scott- you should read that guy’s site. He’s bought the MSM pill hook line and sinker. When he is confronted with someone who has been to Iraq, and has done refugee work there (me), someone else who, well, lets just not say where he works but he gets his intelligence from there, a bunch of people who live in Iraq, he has the temerity to say we’re mistaken. That him, as a butcher in Seattle (they still eat meat in that drug addled hippie town?) read DailyKos and really knows whats going on.

But back to this post. It was funny that he thinks its because they’re quoting a source. None of their other articles are posted like that.

Hehheh… just saw your second comment come through. That’s good stuff!
Brian Macker Says:
August 7th, 2007 at 4:10 pm +0
Then who was the source they were scare quoting? Idiot.

What’s the point of the section at the end titled “Political crisis”. This is very biased reporting and should be obvious to anyone with half a brain.