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New Fee For Internet-Capable PCs In Germany
An anonymous reader writes "German online news sites heise.de and spiegel.de has stories, that from April 2005 on a fee of about 17 to 18 EUR per month must be paid to the national broadcasters in Germany for personal computers in private households, which have possible access to the internet. The fee must not be paid, if it is already paid for a TV set. Companies are said to be obliged to pay that fee from 2007 on." Those who don't read German should make use of the Fish.
Your post proves my original argument completely. For you BBC is the mouthpiece of truth, yet you can't see through the thick cloud of your own bias. Your post is full of lies (that most people might take at face value), and you probably feel the BBC completely agrees with your views. Ergo, the BBC is biased, just like you.
But I'll add more: the BBC is not simply biased; it completely distorts the facts in order to comply to its bias. So much so, that the BBC reporters, when they lie, they contradict each other and the presenter at the studio! No wonder, lies come in various colors and shapes, they are bound to contradict each other. In the best case, they just "omit some details", sometimes they fail to investigate the information they get from (always the same) one source. Often times they show the views of only one side, while, at best, giving the other side only one insinuating question to answer.And then there's the distortion of historic data, the omission of important historical facts, and generally, they rely very much on the audience's ignorance. Often BBC fails to translate some very interesting speeches by their hero Arafat.
But it all makes perfect sense: the islamic world is a 1 billion+ market, rich with oil and on the increase. You don't want to piss off that, right? Truth and journalistic integrity be damned.
Sigged!