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[Get Real!]

Especially when its reporting anything negative about the GCs eh Maxi, if it was about Turkey then they would be the most accurate source of news on the planet

[Cap]

Even the North's coverage was more accurate.

[Get Real!]

Even the North's coverage was more accurate.

You mean when they were saying... "They deserve everything they get!"

[Kikapu]

One of the most poorly researched and suspect cases of reporting by the BBC was at ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21974466

Which contained the following sentences on the hope of the Illegal Regime to cash in on the problem and which gave a platform to Ersin Tatar, without a reference to his time as the Finance Director of the firm Polly Peck at a time when Asil Nadir was defrauding the firm and GB investors to the tune of 00s of millions of GBP...

...At the office of Ersin Tatar, the finance minister of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state, they talk up a banking system that has certainly had its problems in the past but looks like a safer bet at the moment.

"Anyone who wants to open a bank account can come here, as long as they abide by international rules and regulations," Mr Tatar says.

He is particularly keen to attract some of the tens of thousands of British citizens who have money in banks in the Republic of Cyprus.

"We don't want any dirty money," he asserts, "but we have a good banking system supported by Turkey, and we have a good life..."

... and you go and tell that to the '000s of CarpetShaggers who have, quite deservedly, been shafted in the Occupied Areas.

But Haram money is OK, gained from sale of stolen GC properties.

[Cap]

To put it into perspective, my neighbors who are English were suddenly bombarded by phone calls and text messages from concerned friends and relatives in England offering money and food parcels who were misled by the British media.
Perplexed and confused they responded by confirming they were ok.
They told me they were more worried after that than during the whole fiasco.

[apc2010]

To put it into perspective, my neighbors who are English were suddenly bombarded by phone calls and text messages from concerned friends and relatives in England offering money and food parcels who were misled by the British media.
Perplexed and confused they responded by confirming they were ok.
They told me they were more worried after that than during the whole fiasco.

We had the same calls offering to pay for tickets to the UK ................and somewhere to stay........

[Tim Drayton]

I agree. There is a BBC World Service programme called "World Have Your Say", which is open for listeners to contribute to. One such programme during the first week of the bank closure was devoted to life in Cyprus with the banks shut. I sent in an e-mail saying, that as far as I could see, life was continuing pretty much as normal, although noting that obviously if the banks eventually failed things would get worse. Of course that e-mail was not read out, nor any others on a positive note, only messages that suited the sensationalist agenda that the BBC seemed intent to promote.
Early on in the programme, we were told that business had almost come to a standstill as nobody had any money to spend. Later, one of the guests said that some people were stocking up on basic goods. The programme moderator jumped on this, wanting to know if the supermarkets were full of people desperately grabbing everything in sight and whether they had emptied the shelves etc. What a contradiction! One minute business has come to a standstill, ten minutes later everybody is out on a panic buying spree. Only one of these can be true!

As of Sunday, they have stopped broadcasting the BBC World Service on the medium wave frequency that you could pick it up on here in Cyprus. Was it something I said?

[CBBB]

I agree. There is a BBC World Service programme called "World Have Your Say", which is open for listeners to contribute to. One such programme during the first week of the bank closure was devoted to life in Cyprus with the banks shut. I sent in an e-mail saying, that as far as I could see, life was continuing pretty much as normal, although noting that obviously if the banks eventually failed things would get worse. Of course that e-mail was not read out, nor any others on a positive note, only messages that suited the sensationalist agenda that the BBC seemed intent to promote.
Early on in the programme, we were told that business had almost come to a standstill as nobody had any money to spend. Later, one of the guests said that some people were stocking up on basic goods. The programme moderator jumped on this, wanting to know if the supermarkets were full of people desperately grabbing everything in sight and whether they had emptied the shelves etc. What a contradiction! One minute business has come to a standstill, ten minutes later everybody is out on a panic buying spree. Only one of these can be true!

As of Sunday, they have stopped broadcasting the BBC World Service on the medium wave frequency that you could pick it up on here in Cyprus. Was it something I said?

No, something the British Chancellor of the Exchequer said, "No more dosh for the World Service!".

[Tim Drayton]

I agree. There is a BBC World Service programme called "World Have Your Say", which is open for listeners to contribute to. One such programme during the first week of the bank closure was devoted to life in Cyprus with the banks shut. I sent in an e-mail saying, that as far as I could see, life was continuing pretty much as normal, although noting that obviously if the banks eventually failed things would get worse. Of course that e-mail was not read out, nor any others on a positive note, only messages that suited the sensationalist agenda that the BBC seemed intent to promote.
Early on in the programme, we were told that business had almost come to a standstill as nobody had any money to spend. Later, one of the guests said that some people were stocking up on basic goods. The programme moderator jumped on this, wanting to know if the supermarkets were full of people desperately grabbing everything in sight and whether they had emptied the shelves etc. What a contradiction! One minute business has come to a standstill, ten minutes later everybody is out on a panic buying spree. Only one of these can be true!

As of Sunday, they have stopped broadcasting the BBC World Service on the medium wave frequency that you could pick it up on here in Cyprus. Was it something I said?

No, something the British Chancellor of the Exchequer said, "No more dosh for the World Service!".

That might have something to do with as well.