posted December 05, 2007 01:37 PM            

Perhaps the Treason Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC should consider springing for a refresher course in Telling the Truth too.

December 05, 2007
BBC spending $2 million to learn how to tell the truth
Thomas Lifson

You can't make this stuff up. It's almost like the punchline to a joke: "How much does it cost to get the BBC to tell the truth?" The UK Times reports:

Training to remind staff about the importance of telling viewers the truth will cost the BBC more than £1 million in staff time and expenses.

About 17,000 BBC staff have to attend a two-hour course, in which employees are invited to discuss where the line should be drawn between artifice and deception in the wake of a series of scandals.

Vin Ray, the director of the BBC's college of journalism, said that the direct cost of the course would be "a maximum of £500,000", but the cost of taking each employee out for a half day more than doubled that figure.

posted December 07, 2007 12:16 PM            

I recall the BBC making allegations against the Blair government that they had "sexed up intelligence reports" to give a false picture of Saddam's regime in Iraq.

When all the dust had cleared...meaning a special commission was appointed and headed by Lord Butler a jurist of unimpeachable credentials, it was determined the Blair government had done no such thing. In fact, Lord Butler concluded the intelligence data coming out of British intelligence was well founded.

Another aspect of the Butler Report said the Bush comment in the State of the Union Address...“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .”...was also well founded. This in spite of the lying Joe Wilson's op-ed in the Treason Times..aka, the NY Times. Joe Wilson's lies later caught up with him.

Of course, this left a very large vat of egg all over leftist faces who had been chanting "Bush lied, people died". Not that the truth ever manages to penetrate the minds of leftist morons.

Another interesting outcome of the Butler Report was that the conclusions were inescapable that the BBC flat out lied to their viewers. As a result of that, their broadcast contract with the British government was in jeopardy of not being renewed.

The number 1 and number 2 executives at the BBC were forced to resign their positions as a result of BBC lies.