The Beeb goes off the deep end...
How can anyone not claim Saddam as an evil dictator?
Link; http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003583553,00.html
Link; http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003583553,00.html
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I completely believe that as a prime news outlet the BBC might elect to refer to the man in non-accusatory, innocent-until-proven-guilty terms as they so often do with other alleged criminals. I wouldn't say that the BBC has gone "off the deep end", but to work around the fact that he was a Dictator seems at the very least to be an organized ignorance of the facts that were never in question this time a year ago.
Regardless of the political standing of the BBC's chiefs, it would cost them nothing to acknowledge that Saddam was a Dictator.
Saddam won the election with 100% of the vote That makes him a "president" not a dictator. The BBC's just being "objective"
The world already knew that Hussein was a Dictator, it's how he took power and how he ruled the country - through the force of his own will and not with a mandate by the people of the nation. We refer to Fidel Castro as Cuba's Dictator, a fact no one disputes. It's just disingenuous of the BBC not to refer to Hussein in with the title of "Dictator" (if the assertion by The Sun proves to be true).
He was one, why not call him one?
It's just that simple.
it's just disingenuous of the BBC not to refer to Hussein in with the title of "Dictator"
It would be disingenuous never to report or discuss the things Sadaam has done, or to lie and pretend they had never happened but why should that mean his acts are referred to as if they are part of his name or an official title?
Try?.
Semi-legitimate, nearly elected, pretzel fearing President George W Bush.
I prefer my news not to be too blatantly partisan?..for those who don?t there are other channels!
Originally posted by BRussell
To be neutral and objective, they should refer to Bush as the "court-appointed President of the US."
It wouldn't be above the BBC to report a lie.
so BaaaBaaaaaa.... neeeewwws...