BBC Caught In Mass Public Deception With Iran Propaganda
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, June 18, 2009
The BBC has again been caught engaging in mass public deception by using photographs of pro-Ahmadinejad rallies in Iran and claiming they represent anti-government protests in favor of Hossein Mousavi.
An image used by the L.A. Times on the front page of its website Tuesday showed Iranian President Ahmadinejad waving to a crowd of supporters at a public event.
In a story covering the election protests yesterday, the BBC News website used a closer shot of the same scene, but with Ahmadinejad cut out of the frame. The caption under the photograph read, ‘Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi again defied a ban on protests’.
The BBC photograph is clearly a similar shot of the same pro-Ahmadinejad rally featured in the L.A. Times image, yet the caption erroneously claims it represents anti-Ahmadinejad protesters.
See the screenshots below (click to enlarge).
“Well I guess it sure was a popular fictional rally for Mousavi, because I later noticed while browsing the news sites a familiar picture on the BBC’s lead Iran story – it shows the same crowd, zoomed in to cut out Ahmadinejad,” a reader told the WhatReallyHappened website. “It is clearly the same protest as in the background are the same tree and odd circular building. However, the BBC managed to outdo the LA times in quality reporting – their actual comment under the photo from the huge PRO-Ahmadinejad rally reads ‘Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi again defied a ban on protests’ – a blatant lie and deliberately misleading description of what is actually occurring in Iran!”
As soon as the truth about the misrepresented images surfaced on the WhatReallyHappened website yesterday, the BBC changed the photo caption on their original article.
This is not the first time the BBC has been caught red-handed using crude image and video framing techniques for the purposes of political propaganda.
During the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, the BBC and other mainstream news outlets broadcast closely framed footage of the “mass uprising” during which Iraqis, aided by U.S. troops, toppled the Saddam Hussein statue in Fardus Square.
The closely framed footage was used to imply that hundreds or thousands of Iraqis were involved in a Berlin Wall-style “historic” liberation, yet when wide angle shots were later published on the Internet, footage that was never broadcast on live television, the reality of the “mass uprising” became clear. The crowd around the statue was sparse and consisted mostly of U.S. troops and journalists. The BBC later had to admit that only “dozens” of Iraqis had participated in toppling the statue. The entire scene was a manufactured farce yet the propaganda technique of blocking wide-angle shots from being broadcast convinced the world that the event represented a triumphant and historic mass popular uprising on behalf of the Iraqi people.
Whatever your views on the legitimacy of Ahmadinejad and the accuracy of the Iranian election results, the fact that the Anglo-American establishment and its media organs are exploiting and fanning the flames of chaos in Iran to provoke further instability is unquestionable.
Indeed, the U.S. State Department, which routinely demonizes the Internet as a tool of extremists and terrorists when it is used to criticize U.S. foreign policy, took the unprecedented step today of requesting that Twitter.com “delay planned maintenance work so that Iranian protesters can continue to use it to post images and reports of unrest,” according to a London Times report.
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haha. BBC is just bull shit. They did the same thing last year for pro-china protest…
Well it’s not the first time. In 2008 before the Olympics, they used mass of pro-China pictures and claimed they were anti-China protectors.
That’s just how they do business. Nothing surprising.
BBC only interested in making troubles, not solving.
To: hdtv info
Isn’t that simple enough, if you cannot shout louder than a stronger liar, the only thing you can do is to close your windows. Your voice, and the truth, can never be heard, why bother?
the manipulation of western media by global elites really needs to vanish from the earth, let iran be iran! that’s what i say.
A Must Read Relevent News; See what BBC Urdu is doing.
http://pakistanmediawatch.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/deceptive-reporting-by-bbc-urdu/
Why would anyone be surprised at the BBC action. They did the same thing to the video footage of the striking British Miners at Orgreave in the early 80’s. Showing the miners throwing stones provoking the police charge. Years later it was exposed in court that the police charged first and the miners resorted to the only means of defence they had. The BBC is not just part of the machine, in the UK and with it’s influence it is a vital organ.
This is powerful stuff. Thanks for putting it out there since it was obvious something did not smell right. Now we know the truth with evidence. I commend Prison Planet for its journalistic work that is missing in todays world press.
I also commend Pak Alert News for all the additional research it does to support the news rather than just blithely reprinting what is given to them. This has been an invaluable source of truth in an otherwise disinformation/propaganda tidal wave of lies and decept.
The question now is WHY ALL THE LIES. What is the real agenda for war against Iran which the neocon Israeli dual citizens in the White House are trying to promote??? They better take care of us first or their agenda will be in tatters since we can make all of this a living hell for them and their agenda.
After all, we do know who they are.
My only question would then be, why is Iran blocking cell phone and internet access if this is the truth? Wouldn’t they want the world to know whats going on ??