Every kill or spilled blood colour does not seem to be same to many people here in BD. Killed by whome that is the directive. Khoda Hafez or Allah Hafez that takes nights sleep for many articulated writers/activists and intelectuals than the lawlessness or injustice. They are the local offshoot of BBC or State Department. Shimul, thank you for highlighting the matter.
--- On Mon, 7/3/11, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] BBC's anti-Bangladesh propaganda
To:
Date: Monday, 7 March, 2011, 10:20 AM
About a month ago, I wrote an article titled BBC Promotes 'Islamophobia' (News Blaze, February 06, 2011, http://newsblaze.com/story/20110206112339zzzz.nb/topstory.html).
In that piece, I argued that the BBC is quite unfairly selective in reporting when it comes to Islam and Bangladesh issues, as it seems to be driven by a design to bring both into disrepute. I showed how the giant news agency generally picks a small news item only to inflate it in order to caricature Bangladesh and Islam. Another BBC report on Friday 4 March 2011 draws my attention and it re-vindicates my contention that the influential British news outlet has waged an information cold war against a poor, vulnerable country, Bangladesh.
This time it is a cricket news item. On 4 March 2011, it made a headline news story titled West Indies team bus stoned after win over Bangladesh: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/9414804.stm.
The background of the news story is that the Bangladesh team suffered a humiliating defeat at the hand of the West Indies players on Bangladesh soil on that day, which utterly disappointed the host cricket fans. As is a common practice among the crude and uncouth crowd, a group of Bangladeshi cricket fans felt outraged by the poor performance of the Bangladeshi team and unfortunately mistook a bus carrying the West Indies players as the Bangladeshi cricketers' vehicle. Some fans pelted few stones in a playful manner and no notable damage was done. Bangladeshi media did not consider it news worthy. However, that was not the case with the BBC.
It picked that incident, inflated it and projected Bangladeshi people as hostile host. Until a reader goes to the end of that particular BBC news item, s/he will not realize that the fans anger was directed against their own cricket players, not against the winning guest cricketers. Such a report obviously undermines Bangladesh's proud culture of hospitality and gives a wrong notion about the Bangladeshi people.
Why this anti-Bangladesh propaganda? BBC's South Asian regional office is located in a country that has been hostile to Bangladesh almost on all fronts. People of that neighbouring country who work for the BBC wield enormous influence in the selection of news. Unfortunately, it seems that people at the regional office of the BBC have failed to rise above their anti-Bangladesh prejudice. On a separate note, perhaps, this is the major reason why BBC rarely reports the continuous tortures and killings of the Bangladeshis by the border forces of that country at the border region. However, BBC high-ups based in London cannot avoid the responsibility of such an unfair information war against a poor country.
Shimul Chaudhury
E Mail : honestdebater@yahoo.ca http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=349955
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