Comments on: Your questions for the head of the BBC World Service http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/ The BBC News programme where you set the agenda Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:33:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Fred Wills http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-49791 Fred Wills Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:04:18 +0000 http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-49791 Dear Mr. Chapman, It would be wonderful to see photos of your "on air" staff...as I appreciate their personalities and must put a face to each of the fantastic voices I hear!! Thank you in advance Fred Wills, Dayton, Texas USA Dear Mr. Chapman,

It would be wonderful to see photos of your “on air” staff…as I appreciate their personalities and must put a face to each of the fantastic voices I hear!! Thank you in advance

Fred Wills,
Dayton, Texas USA

]]> By: M A from Cairo, Egypt http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-3113 M A from Cairo, Egypt Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:07:41 +0000 http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-3113 Dear BBC, Why did you remove what I wrote & was posted in Have Your Say yesterday Morning? Is there an explanation here???? Dear BBC,

Why did you remove what I wrote & was posted in Have Your Say yesterday Morning?

Is there an explanation here????

]]> By: randall L.Miller, MSgt, us air force/ret. http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-3006 randall L.Miller, MSgt, us air force/ret. Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:05:25 +0000 http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-3006 Sir: i am a retired military flight engineer. i was stationed at RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge, in the 1970's and RAF Alconbury when we established the new 17RW or reconn, wing there with the U-2/TR-1 aircraft. the have your say show, and all the programming is absolutestanding, you do not sugar coat or leave out pertenentt facts that might make the current us government look bad I can always depend on the BBC for the real news and the the sanatized rubbish we get on broadcast news in USA. I am a devoted listener on the XM satellite service. roughly 12-14hours per day while on the motorways here in southern california running my 40 ton lorry. please extend my thanks and a fine well done to each of the presenters on have your say and all the news programs. also the radio stories and articles are always first rate. please pardon my very horrid typing as i am sending this while rolling on the Fwy 5 here in southern california. thank you Sir foir a fine service and congratsulations on the years on broadcasting i also listened to the BEEB while in Vietnam in the early 1970's. aghain the truth was heard not the falsehoods broadcast by the Armed Froces radio Network of the time or AFRTS. again ny thanks and please keep it going another 75 years Randall L. MIller Master sargent US Air Force/ret. Laguna Beach, California ps my old postcode at RAF Upwood was PE17 1PZ, the dismused base they made housing for the reconn. plane workers required. again thank you OUTSTANDING Sir:
i am a retired military flight engineer. i was stationed at RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge, in the 1970’s and RAF Alconbury when we established the new 17RW or reconn, wing there with the U-2/TR-1 aircraft.
the have your say show, and all the programming is absolutestanding, you do not sugar coat or leave out pertenentt facts that might make the current us government look bad
I can always depend on the BBC for the real news and the the sanatized rubbish we get on broadcast news in USA.
I am a devoted listener on the XM satellite service. roughly 12-14hours per day while on the motorways here in southern california running my 40 ton lorry.
please extend my thanks and a fine well done to each of the presenters on have your say and all the news programs.
also the radio stories and articles are always first rate.
please pardon my very horrid typing as i am sending this while rolling on the Fwy 5 here in southern california.
thank you Sir foir a fine service and congratsulations on the years on broadcasting
i also listened to the BEEB while in Vietnam in the early 1970’s. aghain the truth was heard not the falsehoods broadcast by the Armed Froces radio Network of the time or AFRTS.
again ny thanks and please keep it going another 75 years
Randall L. MIller
Master sargent
US Air Force/ret.
Laguna Beach, California
ps my old postcode at RAF Upwood was PE17 1PZ, the dismused base they made housing for the reconn. plane workers required.
again thank you OUTSTANDING

]]> By: Syed Hasan Turab http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2998 Syed Hasan Turab Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:38:33 +0000 http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2998 Still Radio got more listners compairing to TV. Still Radio got more listners compairing to TV.

]]> By: James Flear http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2996 James Flear Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:23:48 +0000 http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2996 Would the BBC allow a member of Al Qaeda to advocate the killing of US troops in Iraq on one of their talk shows? If not why was Mancow allowed to call for the killing of all "Islamo-fascists" on World Have Your Say? Would the BBC allow a member of Al Qaeda to advocate the killing of US troops in Iraq on one of their talk shows? If not why was Mancow allowed to call for the killing of all “Islamo-fascists” on World Have Your Say?

]]> By: Michael Calwell http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2973 Michael Calwell Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:45:41 +0000 http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2973 The BBC director on at the moment has it completely wrong. “Causing offence” is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. Nobody has the right not to be offended. Lots of things people say offend me, should they be banned? If we ban anything that “causes offence”, anyone can claim to be offended, and then they can control what is said. The BBC director on at the moment has it completely wrong. “Causing offence” is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. Nobody has the right not to be offended. Lots of things people say offend me, should they be banned? If we ban anything that “causes offence”, anyone can claim to be offended, and then they can control what is said.

]]> By: Tom D Ford http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2939 Tom D Ford Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:22:12 +0000 http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2939 Iraq was a democracy under Saddam Hussein and there certainly was no freedom of speech let alone a free media! Tom D Ford Bend, OR , USA Iraq was a democracy under Saddam Hussein and there certainly was no freedom of speech let alone a free media!

Tom D Ford

Bend, OR , USA

]]> By: Henry Schurmann http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2937 Henry Schurmann Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:20:47 +0000 http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2937 Hi, I'm a 3rd generation listener - my grandpa listened secretly in Nazi Germany, forbidding my mother to tell anyone. Curious about this, I started listening as a teenager and have never stopped, seeing how a slight western bias has given way to more global voices today. I think that mainstream media cannot help letting people down when their independence of funding and governance is not guaranteed. So, government cost-saving and control effectively forces mainstream media into (commercial and political) dependency, while driving listeners to potential demagogues. I hope BBC WS will continue operating another 75 years. Henry Schurmann, Aix la Chappelle, Germany Hi, I’m a 3rd generation listener – my grandpa listened secretly in Nazi Germany, forbidding my mother to tell anyone. Curious about this, I started listening as a teenager and have never stopped, seeing how a slight western bias has given way to more global voices today.

I think that mainstream media cannot help letting people down when their independence of funding and governance is not guaranteed. So, government cost-saving and control effectively forces mainstream media into (commercial and political) dependency, while driving listeners to potential demagogues.

I hope BBC WS will continue operating another 75 years.
Henry Schurmann, Aix la Chappelle, Germany

]]> By: Nate Gulley http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2935 Nate Gulley Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:19:02 +0000 http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2935 I think it is ironic that here in the States, private, which is to say mainstream, media is the LEAST independent source of news. At the same time, public radio and television are the only resources for Americans to access actual news reporting without an internet connection. Interestingly, the number of Americans without internet access is one of those subjects that continuously goes unreported by mainstream media. Nate --- Nate Gulley Co-op Family Center | Teacher's Aide Oregon, Portland, USA I think it is ironic that here in the States, private, which is to say mainstream, media is the LEAST independent source of news. At the same time, public radio and television are the only resources for Americans to access actual news reporting without an internet connection.

Interestingly, the number of Americans without internet access is one of those subjects that continuously goes unreported by mainstream media.

Nate
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Nate Gulley
Co-op Family Center | Teacher’s Aide
Oregon, Portland, USA

]]> By: Jeanna Romer http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2933 Jeanna Romer Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:18:00 +0000 http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-bbc/#comment-2933 Freedom of expression in the media is not an individual problem that should be blamed on journalists, but rather a social problem that exists due to the power corporations have within our government. As long has corporations are funding political campaigns, they are going to have influence on what is considered "democratic freedoms". Also, American media is in the hands of a very few people and corporations (Rupert Murdoch to name one), so it is difficult to get unbiased and fair news coverage over meaningful issues. Jeanna Romer La Grande, OR Freedom of expression in the media is not an individual problem that should be blamed on journalists, but rather a social problem that exists due to the power corporations have within our government. As long has corporations are funding political campaigns, they are going to have influence on what is considered “democratic freedoms”. Also, American media is in the hands of a very few people and corporations (Rupert Murdoch to name one), so it is difficult to get unbiased and fair news coverage over meaningful issues.

Jeanna Romer
La Grande, OR

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