BBC Reporter 'Despised' Kilroy
Read the latest on the distorted BBC news report from the latest Veritas Press Release:-
MEDIA ADVICE
Sunday 17th April, 12.30pm - immediate
BBC’s biased reporter ‘deliberately misled’ viewers and listeners over Derby asylum-seekers: Kilroy-Silk
“I despise the man” - BBC Reporter
A BBC reporter sent to cover Robert Kilroy-Silk’s walkabouts in Derby and other East Midlands towns last Wednesday told VERITAS supporters: ‘I dislike him’, and later told another -when offered a Veritas leaflet, ‘”I despise the man”. The supporters have since lodged formal complaints with the BBC.
And following the BBC’s apology for not reporting in its main news item last week that Kamal Bourgass, the murderer of Detective Constable Stephen Oakes, was a failed asylum-seeker, Mr Kilroy-Silk, the leader of Veritas, has lodged a formal complaint with the BBC over its editing out of references made on a Derby street by Bosnian and Croat asylum-seekers to their home countries.
“The BBC has deliberately distorted news items in which I was involved, in order to portray asylum-seekers in a positive light, whereas both encounters demonstrated how asylum-seekers were abusing our health and benefits system”.
Mr Kilroy-Silk was recorded by BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme, and also filmed by BBC TV News, having two separate conversations with asylum-seekers in Derby town centre last Wednesday. Both were living on benefits, agreed that their home countries were now safe enough to return to, but confessed that they intended to remain in Britain.
Instead of reporting this truthfully, the BBC edited the exchange to suggest that the man was returning home to Sarajevo in July, whereas he had actually told me that he was only going back to Bosnia for a holiday in July and would return to continue to live in Derby on benefits.
This was broadcast on the ‘Today’ programme on Radio 4 on Thursday morning. The BBC then continued the deception by providing a clip of the broadcast the encounter to the satirical programme: “Have I Got News For You” which, again, had the man saying only that he was returning to Sarajevo in July - not, as he said, that it was to be a holiday and that he will be returning to Britain to live on benefits.
“The provision of this deceptively edited clip to “Have I Got News For You” clearly added insult to injury, given that the item in question had never been broadcast as a news items so far as I am aware, yet was provided to a satirical program in order to ridicule me”, said Mr. Kilroy-Silk.
In the second conversation, a Croatian woman told the M.E.P. that she would not go back home to Croatia because Britain had the best free health service. She had, she said, had serious heart and kidney problems. She had had some operations, and she needed more. She was not working. This was not reported.
Mr. Kilroy-Silk said: “Clearly the BBC has its own agenda. It wishes to be politically correct. It wants to help the government. It clearly is not telling the truth, not the whole truth, but deliberately deceiving. It has become the ‘Blair Broadcasting Corporation’.
“I know that the BBC TV News reporter was not impartial to me. She could not be. She told two of my supporters that she ‘despised’ and ‘disliked’ me. But I did not expect the BBC to be so untrustworthy as to report the opposite of the truth”, he concluded.
“What’s going on? Can the corporation be trusted any more, to be fair, impartial, truthful? Obviously not”.
MEDIA ADVICE
Sunday 17th April, 12.30pm - immediate
BBC’s biased reporter ‘deliberately misled’ viewers and listeners over Derby asylum-seekers: Kilroy-Silk
“I despise the man” - BBC Reporter
A BBC reporter sent to cover Robert Kilroy-Silk’s walkabouts in Derby and other East Midlands towns last Wednesday told VERITAS supporters: ‘I dislike him’, and later told another -when offered a Veritas leaflet, ‘”I despise the man”. The supporters have since lodged formal complaints with the BBC.
And following the BBC’s apology for not reporting in its main news item last week that Kamal Bourgass, the murderer of Detective Constable Stephen Oakes, was a failed asylum-seeker, Mr Kilroy-Silk, the leader of Veritas, has lodged a formal complaint with the BBC over its editing out of references made on a Derby street by Bosnian and Croat asylum-seekers to their home countries.
“The BBC has deliberately distorted news items in which I was involved, in order to portray asylum-seekers in a positive light, whereas both encounters demonstrated how asylum-seekers were abusing our health and benefits system”.
Mr Kilroy-Silk was recorded by BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme, and also filmed by BBC TV News, having two separate conversations with asylum-seekers in Derby town centre last Wednesday. Both were living on benefits, agreed that their home countries were now safe enough to return to, but confessed that they intended to remain in Britain.
Instead of reporting this truthfully, the BBC edited the exchange to suggest that the man was returning home to Sarajevo in July, whereas he had actually told me that he was only going back to Bosnia for a holiday in July and would return to continue to live in Derby on benefits.
This was broadcast on the ‘Today’ programme on Radio 4 on Thursday morning. The BBC then continued the deception by providing a clip of the broadcast the encounter to the satirical programme: “Have I Got News For You” which, again, had the man saying only that he was returning to Sarajevo in July - not, as he said, that it was to be a holiday and that he will be returning to Britain to live on benefits.
“The provision of this deceptively edited clip to “Have I Got News For You” clearly added insult to injury, given that the item in question had never been broadcast as a news items so far as I am aware, yet was provided to a satirical program in order to ridicule me”, said Mr. Kilroy-Silk.
In the second conversation, a Croatian woman told the M.E.P. that she would not go back home to Croatia because Britain had the best free health service. She had, she said, had serious heart and kidney problems. She had had some operations, and she needed more. She was not working. This was not reported.
Mr. Kilroy-Silk said: “Clearly the BBC has its own agenda. It wishes to be politically correct. It wants to help the government. It clearly is not telling the truth, not the whole truth, but deliberately deceiving. It has become the ‘Blair Broadcasting Corporation’.
“I know that the BBC TV News reporter was not impartial to me. She could not be. She told two of my supporters that she ‘despised’ and ‘disliked’ me. But I did not expect the BBC to be so untrustworthy as to report the opposite of the truth”, he concluded.
“What’s going on? Can the corporation be trusted any more, to be fair, impartial, truthful? Obviously not”.
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