It is only about a month ago since a Reuters photographer got revealed tampering pictures when covering the events in Lebanon and Israel. Now it is BBC’s turn to create some bad publicity due to employees’ extremely poor judgments. It just gets worse when these things happen inside big news organizations such as Reuters and BBC. Neither of them is bad, but some of the employees’ seem to think they can to whatever they please to. Incredible.
I discussed this matter when the Mohammed sketches when they were published and I will stick to the same opinion as I said then. I am for freedom of speech and freedom and press and so forth. I am not saying that freedom of speech shouldn’t/couldn’t be applied to jokes, but hey. There is a difference between what you “can†and should joke about. Why do you need to proove your point about freedom of speech by marking and insulting people who are enough harrassed throughout the world? Yes, I know there are people out there falsely doing things in the name of religion that are unforgivable, but the majority are innocent yet today treated as guilty.
Today, it is five years since the tragic events in New York and even though the video was made some time ago they should have known better. This is not the time, nor the place to make such jokes. It just feels so unnecessary.
And about the film…
I think it is a piece of crap. It is not well-done and has some incredible poor singing. I get the feeling that we have a bunch of Monthy Python wannabies with very poor execution skills. Combine that with a very questionable sarcasm and you want to start looking for a dumpster to throw it in.
The story and video can be found at Is this the way to Al Jazeera?
(A bit more national to Sweden. This is a discussion that should be had in Sweden on this topic. I agree with Göran Lambertz that there should be room for some thought on this topic. It is a tough matter and it should be treated as such. Using the new media we can have it all and finally we have a control mechanism to the traditional media. )
