A leading British university says the BBC has abused its students employing them as human shields in North Korea to covertly make a documentary about the country. The London School of Economics said the university and students were only told that three journalists will accompany them in the trip, but nothing was mentioned of the undercover film recorded for the Panorama program to be aired on BBC 1 tonight. LSEs director Craig Calhoun said the BBC had resorted to lies and deception from the outset risking the students while the corporation is now unwilling to take responsibility. The school was not informed at all in any way about this. The BBC chose to present this as though the reporters were LSE students or staff, he said. The BBC chose also to make this appear as if it was an LSE trip, when it was not. I would like the BBC to pull the programme so that it is not showing footage of our students and creating dangers, he added. Meanwhile, general secretary of LSEs student union said the BBC has used the students as human shields as they were told about the corporations intention only when they were flying to North Korea. The BBC has so far denied the accusations that students were not told they were going to be filmed and has refused calls to prevent the program from airing. BBC head of programs Ceri Thomas has even claimed that the students were paid for taking the risk. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/15/298374/bbc-used-pupils-as-shields-in-n-korea/ Well, someone is lying, that's for sure. Far be it from me to say who, or nudge you in the right direction, but remember, the BBC probably knew all about Jimmy Saville, and remained silent. (so..)
lemme guess. these students had no clue what journalists do. I bet they were baffled at all the questions the journo's had, all the whispered conversations amongst themselves, the request for a distraction here or there. of course the cameras were merely for taking the odd approved tourist picture. I mean really why would a journalist be at all interested in getting a story about NK from inside NK? daft buggers.
I've been following the BBC's excuses. It's quite obvious that the programme- and I use the word in the conditioning sense- is loaded. The BBC freely admits that it lied to the North Korean government in order to subvert the NK friendship initiative. The BBC has become a government mouthpiece and the UK government is a US of AIPAC appendage.
Pretty much this. No way would I pay for a licence, even if I owned a tv, which as you are aware, I haven't for some time. I would sooner choose what I watched, via the net, or perhaps a film, which I do not need a tv for. Those not familiar with our culture here must laugh at what we have grown up with, all these 'detector vans', and warning posters about them being able to 'know if you have a tv'. Quite funny when you think about it. Know what, I actually would not mind chiming in say £50 a year, on the basis that it is ad free, and if it returned to be all it can be, and that was a good producer of documentaries, nature programme's, with reasonable journalistic standards. It is not doing that, in fact, it has never been further away from it, churning out the same sort of crap you would get on commercial channels, and the Gov propaganda, why pay for that? Let them pay for it. It is their mouthpiece.
There has been a sinister change of emphasis here. The BBC is openly admitting lying to a foreign government in order to manufacture material for political usage. There is no war between the UK and North Korea. Such behaviour is unacceptable .
But don't let that stop David Cameron casually saying the other week that (wait for it)...N Korea have nukes that could reach us. Where have I heard this before? It is like when there is an election, even if there is a change of party, they hand a book of Definite Things You Must Say And Support, and be the PM Labour or Tory, they say it. It is BS. He has no right even saying it. This is what is wrong. Men like him can make such claims, and despite them being utter dung, doesn't matter, nothing happens.
