More than 100 people were dead after an attack on a predominantly Christian group in central Nigeria, officials told CNN on Sunday.
Cross-post from Calvin L Smith (Principal of King’s Evangelical Divinity School) and nuff said:-
If you have stumbled onto this blog and are not a Christian, get yourself a hot drink, pull up a comfy chair and then tuck into the following article written by one of the best in the business:- All Of Grace by Charles SpurgeonWhy Does the BBC Do This?
See this story on the BBC News website concerning horrific violence in Nigeria overnight leading to the death of over a hundred people, mainly women and children, macheted to death. Now read the same story as reported on the CNN website. Notice the major difference in how the story is reported? (Hint: One of the report identifies the religious affiliation of the victims, the other expressly avoids doing so, even to the extent that the report seems incomlete and somehow artificial).
Why does the Beeb do this? Is it driven by fear, either of opposition from or alienating a proportion of its Muslim audience? Or perhaps disdain for Christianity? All of the above? Lest someone feel I’m being overly-sensitive here, it’s important to note the BBC doesn’t have a particularly good track record when it comes to Christianity, while many feel Islam gets rather better treatment. Whether that is the case or not is for others to decide. But I suggest when a Christian village is attacked on a Sunday morning and a hundred people – predominantly women and children – are slashed to death with machetes, yet our national tax-funded broadcaster fails to report the full facts, it has hardly a wise act by a corporation regularly fending off accusations of anti-Christian bias.
Tags: Christian Persecution, Media
March 7th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
No the bias and misinformation is not because a proportion of the audience is muslim, most probably watch pressTV or the islam channel it is to conceal from Mr. indigenous that the religion of peace is in fact the religion jihad.