BBC journalist attempts to intimidate disabled man pulled from wheelchair

[ed miliband]

... by the cops.

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Pretty sure that journalist was one of the scabs they were using during the BBC strike.

[Manic Impressive]

Jody is a bit of legend i'd say he pwn'd that BBC journalist. But yeah the journalist id a piece of shit Jody had just said he cannot move his wheel chair on his own then the journalist asks if he was throwing missiles at the police. I fucking hate the BBC they might as well just sell it to Murdoch it's pretty worthless as it is right now.

[Tzonteyotl]

That anchor is a fucking asshole. Insane how anybody can respect these people when they are full of such large amounts of shit!:mad:

Hats off to Jody though! Admirable comrade!:thumbup1:

[Sean]

This is so fucked up it sounds like a Brasseye parody.


"There's a suggestion that you were rolling your wheelchair TOWARDS the police in your wheelchair. Is that true?"
"Were you throwing anything at the police?"I know you don't want to softball an interview just because someone has a physical disability but I'm fucking gobsmacked such a ridiculous line of questioning.

From the BBC Points of View (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbpointsofview/F1951566?thread=7937854)page:

This discussion has been closed.So feel free to tell Ben Brown what a prick he is on his facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ben-Brown/116071383134).

If you feel like communicating with him, give his cool first novel a fair rating and review after you buy it of course (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sandstealers-Ben-Brown/dp/0007280149). It seems to be an action story where the main character is a Mary Sue.


Danny Lowenstein is a big shot war correspondent with the world at his feet. But when an interview goes wrong and he's ambushed on a lonely road in Iraq, questions are asked. Was it a set-up? And was he deliberately sent to his death by one of his own -- the tight-knit group of adrenalin-addicted journalists who are supposed to be his best friends? Rachel, Becky, Kaps and Edwin are 'The Junkies': together they've been through thick and thin and seen the horrors of war. Yet theirs is also a tangled web of intense relationships and dark rivalries. Could one of them have become Danny's killer? All's fair in love and war. Including the murder of a friend! If anyone accuses me of being an asshole for suggesting that, its quite obvious from that youtube clip that he was rolling his anchor's chair towards us.

[Sean]

I'd love to know if Jody's mug was on the spotter card. I bet he fucking was, you know, it'd be awesome if there was evidence that those cops were deliberately told to pick on a disabled guy specifically even before they arrived.

[Steve_j]

So feel free to tell Ben Brown what a prick he is on his facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ben-Brown/116071383134).

Ofcourse you can also send him a polite email or two.

[email protected]

[Demogorgon]

Fortunately he failed to intimidate the guy, who I have to say dealt with it remarkably well. He was obviously well prepared, knew what he wanted to say and said it and didn't rise to the bait which is quite impressive for somebody not used to being interviewed.

[ed miliband]

Fortunately he failed to intimidate the guy, who I have to say dealt with it remarkably well. He was obviously well prepared, knew what he wanted to say and said it and didn't rise to the bait which is quite impressive for somebody not used to being interviewed.

Indeed, it must have been very frustrating for him, not only because of the ridiculous questions but because of the horribly patronising tone that the journo is speaking in.

[Ninel]

Especially being interupted when it appears he has to use a lot of energy to speak and when his points are extremely valid. Does anyone know what the police are using as their excuse of what he did?

[Stranger Than Paradise]

The sickening reactionary scum at the Daily Mail released this disgusting article:

http://liberalconspiracy.org/images/media/dailymail_jodymcintyre.jpg

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

The Daily Mail article posted is fucking disgusting, but I'm not surprised. Same for the BBC interview, its no surprise what so ever. Good on Jody though, he was absolutely spot on and gave a fantastic interview.

[Sean]

Well he does have have a limited ability to stand and walk as mentioned in his blog where he mentioned having to climb flights of stairs while others carried his chair and when he was originally attacked he was standing, but again even though he isn't 100% immobile that doesn't mean he could EVER be thought of as posing ANY kind of threat and he was obviously manhandled to antagonise others toward violence.

EDIT: this post was towards Ninel asking excuses police could have made, it unfortunately came after that fucked up fake disabled jibe from the daily mail Stranger Than Paradise posted.


Does anyone know what the police are using as their excuse of what he did?

[Ninel]

When I watched the footage I was shocked, they're barbarians!

[Jazzratt]

The sickening reactionary scum at the Daily Mail released this disgusting article:

http://liberalconspiracy.org/images/media/dailymail_jodymcintyre.jpg It's Littlejohn. That isn't even the most offensive thing he's ever written, which is disgusting in itself. I'm certainly outraged by it and his implications (and indeed explicit statements, as he's not one for subtelty is our Florida resident commentator on British life) are disgusting, but I'm far from surprised. This is the voice of our priunt media, no wonder the whole things slowly collapsing like a rotten souflé.

The whole treatment of this in the media has been a fucking shambles, though.

[Sam_b]

Ben Brown well and truly trolled. Jody puts the points of our movement across very well. Good on him.

[Stranger Than Paradise]

It's Littlejohn. That isn't even the most offensive thing he's ever written, which is disgusting in itself. I'm certainly outraged by it and his implications (and indeed explicit statements, as he's not one for subtelty is our Florida resident commentator on British life) are disgusting, but I'm far from surprised. This is the voice of our priunt media, no wonder the whole things slowly collapsing like a rotten souflé.

The whole treatment of this in the media has been a fucking shambles, though.

It's kinda worrying, maybe it's good the next march is for the end of January though I would welcome one closer to the end of the holidays not a whole month after.

I don't think it's going to collapse or evaporate, I think this is a slump in activity no doubt but I don't think the implications will be this quick movements collapse. We saw a similar thing when the French summer break arrived for the anti-CPE movement.

[RedAnarchist]

Why should we care about some inbred getting a slight fright inside her armoured car, when people who suffer from physical disabilities are being dragged from wheelchairs and forced to the floor? As for the Daily Fail, they have lived up to their vile, disgusting selves as usual. There's few creatures less human than one which mocks people for something they were born with and suffer from, although having said that most contributors to the Daily Mail do seem to be mental degenerates with the intellectual capabilities of bacteria, so perhaps we should have sympathy for them as well?

[RedStarOverChina]

Much respect to this guy.

I knew that the BBC was shameless, but I never thought they'd be this open about it. :thumbdown:

[~Spectre]

B-b-but on your page you call yourself a revolutionary!

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Did anyone else notice the anchor clicking his pen at about the 3:50 mark? Aside from striking me as a nervous tic (frustration?) it seems most unprofessional.

"Did you shout anything provocative at the cops?" So fucking what if he did? That may be an excuse for a civilian, but police officers are supposed to hold to higher standards, especially in a situation such as a protest. What a cock.

"This whole line of argument is absolutely ludicrous" - Spot on! The spineless chump of an anchor seemed to go on about nothing else!

Also, I thought Jody's mention of the protestor who needed brain surgery was well-timed and apt - "I'm not the real victim here". I think that kind self-effacing behaviour is nothing short of exemplary, and something the general public can really sympathise with.

Maximum kudos to Jody.

[ed miliband]

Y'know, one of the saddest things about this (the interview, not the incident itself) is that liberals will still bleat on about how the BBC makes them 'proud to be British'. Any criticism of the BBC - whether concerning their refusal to show the Gaza appeal advert, or their consistently biased coverage of any protest movement, etc. - is denounced as a right-wing plot to have the beeb sold to Rupert Murdoch.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Y'know, one of the saddest things about this (the interview, not the incident itself) is that liberals will still bleat on about how the BBC makes them 'proud to be British'. Any criticism of the BBC - whether concerning their refusal to show the Gaza appeal advert, or their consistently biased coverage of any protest movement, etc. - is denounced as a right-wing plot to have the beeb sold to Rupert Murdoch.

Just to be clear, do any "liberals" actually say anything like this? Do you have a link? Because I've never heard anyone I consider a liberal to say anything as patently silly as "proud to be British".

[ed miliband]

Yes, I've heard that sort of rhetoric while discussing this and various other BBC related controversies (aforementioned Gaza thing in particular) with people a number of times. Obviously I have no evidence of this and it's up to you to take my word for it.

And 'proud to be British' isn't a direct quote, just something I've heard said a number of times. The main point of my post was that in some people's eyes the BBC can do no wrong. I guess I should also point out how laughable it is that conservatives think the BBC is a far left institution dedicated to bringing down capitalism, despite so much evidence to the contrary.

[Omi]

It's nice to see a glimpse of hate in our comrade's eyes towards the journalist after he repeatedly asked suggestive questions about the incident. He did an amazing job though, it's not easy to articulate such a well founded point during a TV interview with a journalist who is clearly trying to sabotage the points your making. Especially if you have trouble speaking!

Also very obvious that in the end when Jody mentions the Palestine conflict he cut him off by asking a question he had already asked.

[Stranger Than Paradise]

Just to be clear, do any "liberals" actually say anything like this? Do you have a link? Because I've never heard anyone I consider a liberal to say anything as patently silly as "proud to be British".

I have to agree with aufkleben, I've heard similar rhetoric about the BBC from 'progressives'. How it's a traditional institution of British society, and proud about it as well.

[ed miliband]

Just a quick glimpse:

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:unsure:

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

I posted this link in another thread, but it's more relevant here.

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2010/12/shameless.html

Check out the comments, too!

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

There's to be an 'official enquiry':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12012592

No prizes for guessing the result...

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Here's Jodi's own blog on this:

http://jodymcintyre.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/week-77-the-media%E2%80%99s-war/

Jody:


About Me

When I was born in East Dulwich hospital, the doctors told my parents I would never walk, and probably wouldn’t talk.

After proving them wrong, and eighteen wasted years of education, I decided to go and see the world, and travelled around South America for three months on my own. While I was out there, Israel committed a massacre in Gaza, and planted the seeds of revolution in my mind. The rest, as they say, is history.

http://jodymcintyre.wordpress.com/about/

BBC's response:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2010/12/interview_with_jody_mcintyre.html

Read the comments.

Here's three of them:


11. I complained last night, immediately after watching the interview.

My objection is simply illustrated. Were Ben Brown to interview Charles and Camilla about having paint thrown at their car, would he repeatedly ask whether they were asking for it? Would he reference comments that Charles had previously made about other subjects to suggest they justified the attack? Would he ask whether Camilla had thrown anything at the protesters, and then, once she denied it, would he ask again?

The answer is of course no to all of those questions. The same respect should have been shown to Jody. This man did nothing wrong, was the subject of a documented assault by the police, and was treated to a hostile interview as if he were a government minister proposing a controversial new law.

It's not acceptable, it's not responsible and the BBC should sack Ben Brown for it. I'm sure he will find a welcoming home at Sky News, whose viewers are far more used to prejudice and ignorance being rewarded.


13. I think that the complaints are revealing and reflecting a much wider dissatisfaction with the way the BBC has reported the whole protest. In 'the old days' (for example, when the Poll Tax demonstration turned to violence), there were no mobile phone cameras to capture the 'view from the street' and the mainstream media perspective was the only one we saw. Now YouTube is full of footage that clearly shows the police behaving badly. Many of us feel a sense of outrage, and quite right too: is NOT OK to ride horses into crowds, hit kids with batons, or pull a disabled person from his wheelchair. The evidence that this has happened is there, on film, in the public domain; but still we get apologist interviewers like Ben Brown implying that protesters must have 'asked for it' somehow. Many, many viewers would prefer to see the BBC questioning police chiefs, challenging what has happened and voicing public outrage... Come on BBC - fulfill your public broadcast remit!



14. ....It may have been a long interview, but any time Mr McIntyre strayed into areas such as his wider beliefs of why the incident occurred, Ben Brown quickly interrupted (in particular at the mention of BBC Palestinian coverage, interestingly), asking again if a cerebral palsy sufferer threw anything at the officers.

I was also disappointed by the way Mr McIntyre's political activism was used as a way of further insinuating that he may have provoked the attack. That, to me, was rather unfair and narrow minded.

I don't think it is right to use the excuse that just because Mr McIntyre rightly stated he was equal to everyone else, he should be questioned as though he could ever have attacked the police officers. It just distracts from the real issue which in an ideal world the BBC wouldn't ignore. In these kinds of situations the police attack the weak to assert there dominance and provoke a reaction. It just so happens that this time, they chose to attack someone who couldn't possibly have physically defended themselves.

Up to last night, there were over 1000 comments, the vast majority, as far as I could tell, critical of the interview.

[Amphictyonis]

The media is a branch of the state and the state is the tool of capitalists.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Transcript here:

http://troubleinchina.livejournal.com/604369.html

[RebelDog]

Did anyone see that commemerative, souvenir plate with Charles and Camilla's shocked faces from the riot on it. I thought it was hilarious. I want one for my mantle.

[Dimentio]

"Couldn't they eat cakes instead?"

American reactionaries are smarter. They do not insult the people.

[Sean]

Yes, I've heard that sort of rhetoric while discussing this and various other BBC related controversies (aforementioned Gaza thing in particular) with people a number of times. Obviously I have no evidence of this and it's up to you to take my word for it.

And 'proud to be British' isn't a direct quote, just something I've heard said a number of times. The main point of my post was that in some people's eyes the BBC can do no wrong. I guess I should also point out how laughable it is that conservatives think the BBC is a far left institution dedicated to bringing down capitalism, despite so much evidence to the contrary.

Alright if you have issues with media bias and their ability to talk shite "OMG CURE FOR CANCER IS EAT X" but youre in the middle of a convo, I get it, I think LD50 is bullshit for one and I think media reporting is stupid for another, but I think both need another thread otherwise youre spamming up our weighing up up this.

Thread split please? I'd like to talk about that.

[Jazzhands]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUHzSQgayXY

Original, unglitched footage. fuck these cops. fuck them in the ass.

[Angry Young Man]

This is so fucked up it sounds like a Brasseye parody.

Oh please, Chris Morris, if you see this, it would make my life.

[Niccolò Rossi]

Congratulations to Jody for holding himself so well in that interview!

Nic.

[Angry Young Man]

I did the fan page thing. Guess who took the really mature tack of calling him a wanker five times.

[stan107]

This guys my hero. BBC sucks now a days I mean totally.