Media Lens
Ten Years Of ‘Involvement’ In Afghanistan
Imagine Britain had been invaded and occupied by armed forces from
another region of the world with China, for example, as a significant
‘partner’ in the ‘coalition’. Imagine tens of thousands of Britons had
been killed, and millions had fled as refugees. This is how the Chinese
state broadcaster might report the invasion ten years hence:
'It’s ten years this week since Chinese forces first became involved in Britain, and more than five years since they assumed responsibility for south-east England. So what's been achieved in that time?'
These were the actual words that presenter Fiona Bruce used on the flagship BBC News at Ten:
'It’s ten years this week since British forces first became involved in Afghanistan, and more than five years since they assumed responsibility for Helmand province. So what's been achieved in that time?' (BBC One, October 4, 2011, italics added)
This is BBC 'impartiality' in action. These words were a prelude to a
piece by Paul Wood, the BBC’s Afghanistan correspondent, that was a
model of Pravda-style propaganda which we will examine further in Part 2.
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