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Why Are The Bbc's Staff The Only People In The World Who Call Is 'so-Called Is'?
I think it's broadcasts cost thousands of pounds a minute. Why then do they waste licence payers money and patronising them at the same time in this way?
We know that IS is what they choose to call themselves. Only people that by default think we are morons would continue to waste money by insisting the words 'so-called' be used every time they mention IS.
We know that IS is what they choose to call themselves. Only people that by default think we are morons would continue to waste money by insisting the words 'so-called' be used every time they mention IS.
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What gets me about this whole 'what should we call them' debate is the suspicion that if I was an ISIS bod I'd be lapping up the implied and uncalled for attention given my organisation
23:24 Tue 29th Dec 2015
Perhaps the BBC(and everyone else should just refer to them as Daesh
"Daesh, an adapted acronym of their Arabic name - Dawlat al-Islamiyah f'al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham - is similar to another Arabic word - das - which means 'to trample down' or 'crush' "
Then that removes the need to sue 'so called' and removes the word State being used.
"Daesh, an adapted acronym of their Arabic name - Dawlat al-Islamiyah f'al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham - is similar to another Arabic word - das - which means 'to trample down' or 'crush' "
Then that removes the need to sue 'so called' and removes the word State being used.
The base issue is clearly not about the time taken. It is about the emotional response triggered because Col feels the viewer is being patronised. The lesson here is that when stating your case in a debate, avoid adding supporting side issues that are easily attacked and which detract from one's main points.
The beeb are being the beeb
Jno has it right - state has connotations that should be refuted
but the argument of using something else completely has fallen on deaf Been ears - daaesh is a danger to the hacks health so they wont use THAT
They approve of some govts - Ian Smith of Rhodesia was always the Smith regime - whereas Mugabe of Zim and the late Nelson Mandela turn on torrents of adoring epithets in an army of adoring Beeb hacks .....
it is what we pay for
Jno has it right - state has connotations that should be refuted
but the argument of using something else completely has fallen on deaf Been ears - daaesh is a danger to the hacks health so they wont use THAT
They approve of some govts - Ian Smith of Rhodesia was always the Smith regime - whereas Mugabe of Zim and the late Nelson Mandela turn on torrents of adoring epithets in an army of adoring Beeb hacks .....
it is what we pay for
youngmafbog
/// Perhaps the BBC(and everyone else should just refer to them as Daesh ///
/// Then that removes the need to sue 'so called' and removes the word State being used. ///
It would also remove the need to refer to the ISLAMIC connection, and it is that what really upsets some.
And we don't want to offend the followers of that 'peaceful religion' now do we?
/// Perhaps the BBC(and everyone else should just refer to them as Daesh ///
/// Then that removes the need to sue 'so called' and removes the word State being used. ///
It would also remove the need to refer to the ISLAMIC connection, and it is that what really upsets some.
And we don't want to offend the followers of that 'peaceful religion' now do we?
I'd be more annoyed that the government has made the BBC subsidise over through tax. The licence fee may be unpopular with some, but at least we know where it goes. And the money now going to pay for this is money the BBC can no longer spend on providing for all of us.
As for the IS thing, it doesn't really bother me. Personally, I think it is a bit silly, but as already noted, I am not sure it is costing us in the same way as the aforementioned free licences
As for the IS thing, it doesn't really bother me. Personally, I think it is a bit silly, but as already noted, I am not sure it is costing us in the same way as the aforementioned free licences
The BBC also insisted on referring to Myanmar as "Burma" which also struck me as daft. (I think the govt did also)
FWIW I also think "so called DDR" was silly too. Everyone knew they not "democratic", but I suppose it was a bit close to home for them and therefore sensitive. In the same way, I'd never refer to the gangster-ridden hinterlands of E Ukraine as anything other than "so-called" people's republics, and thankfully the BBC don't glorify then with that terminology either, and nor do most other people
FWIW I also think "so called DDR" was silly too. Everyone knew they not "democratic", but I suppose it was a bit close to home for them and therefore sensitive. In the same way, I'd never refer to the gangster-ridden hinterlands of E Ukraine as anything other than "so-called" people's republics, and thankfully the BBC don't glorify then with that terminology either, and nor do most other people
The Gov't sent a letter to the BBC, intimated by Rehman Chishti MP (Con) and former Imam, asking them to use DAESH rather than IS. The BBC rejected the idea, saying it could be construed that the acronym demonstrated support for IS's opponents.
Would Mr Chishti have had any vested interest in IS's opponents being stirred up? Perhaps.
Would Mr Chishti have had any vested interest in IS's opponents being stirred up? Perhaps.
ichkeria, UK and US do not accept the legitimacy of the unelected junta that took over in 1989 and renamed things, thus the BBC call it by it's last valid name "Burma". http://
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