SKY News - Judge, Jury & Executioner ?

[z108]

In Harry's defence, he actually wanted to go to Iraq. It was a military decision (not Royal or political) not to send him. Kind of makes sense to me, threats have been made against him, which would encourage more & more attacks on the British forces over there, which would probably lead to more soldiers being killed.

The west used to support Saddams regime even when he gassed his own people with chemical weapons. That was wrong to the ordinary person but not to the geopolitical analysts behind the scenes who pull the strings. The same goes here in this case and the analysts and power brokers are pulling strings and created this mess and are trying to manage it.
Im not advocating that any young man goes to war but in all fairness in my opinion the decision not to send Harry says something about their society if he gets special treatment. They have gone on about not appeasing people for example, Saddam , Al Quaida etc and not giving into terror threats yet the excuse given by boaber amounts in my view to appeasement and giving in to threats.



About the guy Robert Murat, I dont know much more than the barest details about the story really as I havent been watching Sky and have missed a lot of newspapers in the last week or 2 but from what I can gather from this thread, is Sky news creating a strong disincentive (and a climate of fear of a ruined reputation) for anyone to help out in future if they happen to live next door to the scene of such a horrific happening or is there genuinely something creepy about this guy ?

 

[shnaek]

It's back to the witch-hunts again. Guilty until proven innocent. Anyone who thinks SKY News is a 'News' channel just hasn't been watching.

 

[Jock04]

I'm actually quite proud that Sky News Ireland fell flat on it's ass after a few months.
One in the eye for the gutter press.

 

[almo]

A very contrasting piece on Sky "World" News this morning. A British man, living in China for 12 years and divorced from his Chinese wife, and not allowed access to his 4year old son - despite legal rights being granted - decided to "take the law into his own hands". He snatched his son, took him on an overnight train to the capital and stood outside the British Embassy and got Sky to ask the visiting Margaret Beckett if she can help, she said it's a Chinese issue. The whole article, including a fathers tears (which were no doubt genuine) was done in a tone of semi-hushed sympathy and ended with "he could end up going to jail for breaking Chinese law in abducting his son".

That his ex-wife didn't comply with visitation orders is a scandal, but the point is that this is a man who snatched a child off the street, took him hundreds of miles away and there was Sky news to meet him from the train and follow him for a day. Surely the Sky news team should be arrested for complicity (they must have known in advance) and gone with him to Margaret Beckett or the British Embassy (before taking the child) and tried use their considerable pull.

So one child is snatched in Portugal and "the world prays" and another in China and Sky uses it as a damnation of the way in which a British citizen is treated. Very sad.