Cllr. Gavin Ayling

We mustn’t forget that our media only tells us what it considers to be the most important news. That is why, amid the massive terrorism story today, and the longer-term Israel/Lebanon conflict (which isn’t receiving balanced, educated or logical coverage), other stories are being forgotten.

Darfur isn’t peaceful — the unrest has continued now for three years — but you could be forgiven for thinking that nothing more was happening there. According to CNN rapes are higher now than at any other time during those three years.

Russian troops are still fighting terrorism and committing atrocities in Chechyna. There’s a typhoon approaching China that has caused over 400,000 people to flee. The Gaza Strip, which was where the first Israeli soldier kidnap occurred before the current hostilities, is no longer reported upon. The Tamil Tigers are still murdering their fellow Sri Lankans. And, perhaps most importantly from a historical perspective, Fidel Castro is dead (though no-one’s been told that yet).

That’s not to say that the actions of Islamic terrorists supported by their Islamofacists are not worthy of media focus, just to remind everyone that there is more going on in the world, and some of it is important from a global perspective too.

I have said before that Islamism (as opposed to the Islam faith that all my Muslim friends and acquaintances believe in) is not compatible with Western civilisation. Our media is reporting poorly, but is reporting on the most important story of our time. Let’s just also hear what the more balanced news providers around the world report upon. This is a call, I guess, for an Indian or other former-Empire (and so English-speaking) country’s media organisation to set up shop in Britain, take a Freeview slot and start broadcasting some real world news.

It has been said many times before on this blog, but the news we are provided with is not only biased but also anglo-centric.

So it is great that Google gives us translation tools. Read this French article:

Hezbollah propaganda.

The point of the article, really, is that the bodies of civilians have been planted at the scene of the Israeli bomb.

I have long received a Bulletin from the Conservative Central HQ which speaks of the party’s position on several items.

These days I scarcely need to read them: Cameron has been so successful in garnering media attention that I have heard the stories on the radio before I’ve come home to read my e-mails. Today’s for example, was on the railway privatisation admission…

And he’s quite right too.

The BBC remains so out of touch as evidenced by the BBC’s Have Your Say voted responses today, the vast majority of people do not sympathise with the ghetto-creators, rather they wish these so-called victims (only called that by the BBC and other left-wing MSM by the way) would respect the UK and England and that they’d accept British cultural norms (cartoons and parody as a start).

The Have Your Say I refer to.

The British media has a massive responsibility. For reasons quite beyond me, the UK’s media is watched and read throughout Europe and disproportionately further afield than that — and it’s more than can be accounted for because of the BBC World Service.

And this global reach carries with is great responsibility. So why, WHY, do the British media organisations publicise that 200 English fans have been arrested as if that’s a massively important piece of news.

There have been 4,000 arrests so far and English fans don’t represent the majority and are probably not even the single largest group disproportionate from the massive number of supporters England has (60,000 I believe).

It is important that the English are not targetted as trouble-makers by other countries’ fans, and this sort of coverage (see the BBC today) is unhelpful at best.

Where, In what world would an English Chief Constable be allowed to say this?

In fact, any slightly anti-Welsh sentiment leads to cries about the ‘usual’ English nationalism. Of course, as I calm down slightly, we must remember that the Chief Constable of North Wales Police has always had some, frankly, ridiculous positions on crime prevention — and he is one of the major reasons I believe in democratically elected sheriffs, but it is still proposterous.

Again, imagine replacing “English” with any other nationality or group. There would be cries for the unfortunate idiot’s resignation. Let that happen now.

It’s too early to say whether the police have made another foul-up or whether one brother shot the other.

What is certain, though, is that the BBC has no idea how to abide by their responsibility not to incite unrest. Last night the BBC spoke of the need to consider the concerns of “the community” when making arrests.

Previously, I had sat in disbelief as local residents spoke, not of their shock that their neighbour might have been developing or planning to deploy chemical weapons, but that the police raided their friend’s house.

Clearly the local people should stop thinking of themselves as victims of police-oppression and the BBC should stop telling people that there is some relevance to the race of any fundamentalists involved:

Making sure relations between the police and young people in the area do not break down could be their main task.

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Race relations and crime, while they have statistical relevance, should not be part of an impartial broadcast. The apparent victimisation of the only community that has created suicide bombers is laughable.