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How BBC manufactured the perception of a "Massacre" without having to show their viewers a single chip of a dead person

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Wed, 28/05/2014 - 10:17pm

Despite the 2011 WikiLeaks leaked US government cable and the 2009 confession made by BBC journalist James Miles that he had "conveyed the wrong impression" and that there was no one killed in Tiananmen Square in 1989. A simply search on BBC website using the term ‘Tiananmen Massacre’ will revealed that the BBC has continued to use the term ‘Tiananmen Square Massacre’ in all kind of occasions to demonise the Chinese government.

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Global/International
Keywords: 
China
media disinformation
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China human rights
Tiananmen Square Massacre
media lie

BBC short changes climate change in overseas sales of Frozen Planet nature documentary

Submitted by takver on Tue, 15/11/2011 - 9:22pm

The BBC has relegated the seventh and final episode of the Frozen Planet series presented by Sir David Attenborough to an optional extra. The seventh episode - On Thin Ice - deals with how climate change and global warming is impacting the polar regions and how it affects us all. The final episode is heavily narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

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Global/International
Keywords: 
climate change
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