Clip from the BBC’s Human Planet, Rivers — Friend and Foe.
This is a clip from Fragile Paradise, the first in a series of documentaries by the BBC called South Pacific.
Sirocco the Kakapo, a native parrot of New Zealand, gets frisky. An extract from Stephen Fry’s and Mark Carwardine’s new BBC documentary, Last Chance to See:
Robert Fisk, writing for The Independent:
… why is it that Haaretz’s1 top correspondents — Amira Hass and Gideon Levy — write so much more courageously about the human rights abuses of Israeli troops (and war crimes) than the BBC has ever dared to do? Whenever I’m asked by lecture audiences around the world if they should trust the BBC, I tell them to trust Amira and Gideon more than they should ever believe in the wretched broadcasting station.
I can certainly advise viewers to turn to Sky TV’s infinitely tougher coverage of the Middle East and … I can recommend the courage with which Al-Jazeera English covers Gaza and the rest of the Palestinian-Israeli war.
My experience is that you can’t trust the BBC on the Middle East either. While I was in Iraq on the human shield action, the BBC — somewhat to my surprise — turned out to be one of the most factually incorrect and least objective news source reporting on the action. In fact I remember at one point reading more objective stories on the Fox News website, a propaganda channel for the Republican Party of the U.S.
I doubt anything will change there until the place is cleansed of people like the morally corrupt Mark Thompson, the BBC’s director general.
Notes:Incredible clip from the sixth and last episode of the BBC’s Nature’s Great Events.