To be so annoyed at BBC Breakfast?

[nirishma]

How dare they think they can brainwash viewers into thinking that all is fine and dandy, keeping us from thinking about the real world and how we are royally fucking up other people's lives - the current unfortunates being the Syrian people?

Let's NOT report on Al-Qaedia - cunningly rebranded 'the rebels' by the BBC - destroying the ONLY REMAINING VILLAGE WHERE JESUS' MOTHER-TONGUE IS STILL SPOKEN (for you BBC-liebers out there - it's 'Aramaic').

No, that's not what The People want to hear. Instead, let's inject a bit of culture into our viewers' lives. I'm sure they'd rather discuss the popularity of sunflowers, Van Gogh, the merits of taking one's child out of school during term time and whatnot. You know, real breaking news - as it happens.

I cannot STAND people who look down at me for choosing to watch crappy daytime TV, instead of this so-called 'news'. CBeebies is more fucking educational.

Of course, maybe you don't like viewing grotesque war crimes with your morning coffee. In that case I would have to agree with you all that IABVU indeed.

Sorry if this post is a bit 'heavy'. I just really want to keep up with what's happening in the world and am embarrassed by how thick we look to the rest of the world. I do not appreciate the blatant censorship that is going on here! I have to get off my lazy arse and go and buy the Independent to get some proper insight ffs and even THEY the bastards decided they would stop mentioning Syria so much because they thought people would get bored of hearing about it every day. OHHH MY GOODDD!!! ARGHH!!!

I really really wouldn't compare Northern Ireland to Syria, troubles or no troubles.

I do agree that the disruption in the Middle East is of western origin in the main, disruption helps keep our oil secure.

I know very little about the Syrian crisis, I have lost touch.

However, I do find that people who critisise the BBC for being biased often have their own agenda and are far more biased themselves.

I have not noticed anyone laughing at the British for their lack of world perspective.

I only said goodbye to that woman and her 10 year old daughter for a week and now they are dead.

And I do think the British have an anti Muslim perspective

Before the civil war everyone wasn't living in harmony. I think the people who disappeared and were tortured by Assad may hold an aposing view. Assad is a war criminal and a thoroughly unpleasant man whose main goal is to hold onto power at any costs. The rebels are not much better, you appear to have rose tinted specs on. The conflicts in the Middle East are complex with many villains. In this day of 24hr news and the internet YABVU to think that BBC Breakfast is the place for in depth news.

Theodorous that is so awful and sad. I do think there is a lack of interest in the UK about what is going on in Syria. I doubt that many people realise that it is a first world society like ours and I think if they realised that Syrian people really aren't any different to us and had jobs and normal lives before this horror there would be more support in something being done to ensure regime change. It is utterly baffling to me that no other country or even really the UN has been doing much to take any action to resolve this.

YABU. Syria is a disaster but it has been a disaster for long enough to make it not especially newsworthy. When there's some kind of progress or development, then it's news again. In the meantime, Kiev is going up in smoke, there are plenty of other foreign trouble spots and - call me old fashioned - but British people are quite likely to be interested in what's happening in Britain...

Erm, I turned on BBC breakfast this morning and they were reporting on Syria. Didn't hear what they said, mind, due to the incessant shouting of "Peppaaaaaa!" from a small child, but was definitely Syria.

Wow that's impressive maybe I should give it another go.

Yes Assad is a cruel dictator and needed to be overthrown but Britain should be interested in the welfare of the Syrian people because we helped bring about this awful civil war. I don't know many Syrians who would say they prefer the situation now to when Assad had complete control.

I would say we royally fucked up, yet again and William Hague has a lot to answer for.

This article is a prime example of his fuckwittery:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/26/william-hague-uk-vulnerable-syrian-refugees

If you are going to go in and destroy a perfectly happy prosperous country for your own political gain you should at the very least offer the civilians of that country asylum. Picking and choosing - wtf?

Theodorous I am so sorry to hear about your friends. You are right somehow that if people realised what a well-off country Syria was before this chaos took hold that Brits would be more empathetic towards asylum seekers. I don't see how everyone can just brush over the fact that it is us that got them in this mess in the first place.

This has gone completely off topic hasn't it?

Of course the rest of the world is laughing at us. Our foreign policy is shocking and we have an overwhelming sense of self-entitlement. I have lived in other countries which boast a far better quality of life the UK. For example, I have a Pakistani friend who complains that it's like living in a third world country (it really gets on her tits that mixer taps haven't really caught on as standard over here).

Just wish everyone could see us for what we are. Not That Great, and shit at Foreign Policy.

Glad to hear some of you are despairing of the BBC.

Sorry if I have annoyed anyone, I'm just offended by our patronizing media and needed to blow off steam.

Thanks for listening :)

Of course the rest of the world is laughing at us.

I have been lucky enough to have spent most of the last 30 years living abroad in 7 different countries, including Europe, the Middle East and Africa. I have not come across anyone laughing at the UK. Some have expressed their disdain, some admiration and some complete ignorance.

Living in the UK is nothing like living in the 3rd World (9 of those 30 years were in rural Africa)

First story on BBC Breakfast today is Syria.

(I've often wondered if their researchers use MN).

" (it really gets on her tits that mixer taps haven't really caught on as standard over here).."
Does everyone in Pakistan now have access to clean drinking water? IMO that's a bit more important than the type of tap it comes out of.

Agreed. It gives me the rage. I can't stand the way they need 2 presenters who take it in turns to say a sentence each. WHY?

Yabu to expect news from breakfast tv.
Yanbu to be shocked at lack of Syria coverage from BBC.
The today programme is covering it at last this morning.

YANBU in what you say, but to call the BBC patronising after your 'it's Aramiac' comment is a bit .
It's distracted me from the perfectly valid point you were making.