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Sunday, 30 September 2012

It's odd who the BBC will give airtime to and who they will not

The BBC's attitude to Climate Change is that the science is settled and therefore sceptics need not be given airtime. Oddly they are happy to give 7/7 conspiracy theorists all the airtime they want.

The Express (not my paper of choice and no stranger to conspiracy theories itself) reports that:
'A CONTROVERSIAL new BBC documentary which claims the 7/7 bombings were carried out by the Labour government to extend the war on terror was branded “ridiculous” last night.
The allegation is one of several extraordinary claims about the suicide attacks in which 52 people died at the hands of Islamic terrorists in 2005.

Furious MPs and security experts criticised Conspiracy Road Trip, which is presented by a comedian and will air on BBC3 tomorrow night. “The premise that these terrible attacks were carried out by the government is ridiculous,” said Patrick Mercer MP last night.

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The programme sourced the conspiracy theorists from the internet and university campuses.
One contributor, Jon, tells presenter Andrew Maxwell: “The British Establishment did it. We needed this excuse to continue this war – 7/7 was an excuse.”
Another theorist, Tony, said: “There could be a business element [to the bombings].” He added: “They [the terrorists] were hired as patsies, hired as part of a training drill as actors.
Unbeknown to them, there was a secondary operation going on.” The theorists also suggest the government lied about the time the train carrying the bombers left Luton for London, and that a homemade bomb could not have caused the devastation.
Further allegations surround the apparent absence of CCTV footage of the bombers at Tube stations, while a newly converted Muslim woman claims not enough was known about the bombers to suggest they were terrorists.
At the end of the programme, three of the conspiracy theorists change their views. Series producer Riete Oord said: “The claims are out there on the internet. There are people with these conspiracies, 9/11 is also obviously a huge one, 7/7 follows on from that.'

It is strange what conspiracy theories the BBC will allow on their channels and what they won't. I know plenty of people who believe that there is documentary evidence that Labour deliberately increased immigration to the UK as a political and sociological act, will the BBC give them airtime?

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