Nick Cohen
Nick "Bombings in London: Liberals had it coming" Cohen today runs out of things important to say and gives us his view on how the BBC should report stories. Example:'Insurgents killed 24 children in Baghdad yesterday' should be replaced by 'Al-Qaeda and the Baathists killed 24 children in Baghdad yesterday.'
Can anyone take this seriously? To say the latter of course requires the BBC to, ahead of the US military, know exactly who has carried out the attacks. More ludicrously, and I can't quite believe this is what he has written, it appears, utterly straight-faced, that Cohen believe the former:
gives the vague impression that what we're up against is the armed wing of Liberal Democrats: a regrettably violent force which, none the less, has understandable demands that may be met, rather than hostis humani generis.
Well ok Nick. In the spirit of this site's new policy of taking the Decent Left at their words, rather than charitably interpreting them in a better light, the search is now on. Please comment if you read that BBC Online headline last week and were, until checking with a more Decent news source, such as Fox News, unsure as to whether the children were killed by the armed wing of the Liberal Democrats or some other people.
ps: The Observer is liberally sprinkled with the word 'insurgent' Cohen so dislikes. Isn't it strange that apparently he doesn't feel it would be more productive of his time to attempt to get that policy changed, rather than the BBC's? Cohen's pecularities are worse than that, here for instance he alleges that the armed wing of the Liberal Democrats is fighting Kurds in Iraq. Surely that isn't true? Maybe James Graham can comment.
posted by Matthew @ 7/17/2005 07:42:00 AM
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