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BBC seems to have taken the unbias of journalism a bit far. You are still expected to be a moral, ethical, human being, believe it or not.

We can't all be Clark Kents when it comes to reporting, but we sure can at least acknowledge a tremendously inhumane law and not have to debate about it's "ethical standards".

I guess putting gays to death is a debatable topic ....

WTF is wrong with people?
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>.< That is so wrong and sickly disgusting I can't believe that it actually exists.

Executing gays? Wrong. Sick and wrong.

Treating it like a topic that is "open for discussion?" DISGUSTING.

I agree. BBC totally dropped the ball. It's one thing to be politically correct -- it's another to treat murder of innocent people like something that is okay.

Makes me want to puke.
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BBC didn't drop they ball they shot it off with a fricken cannon and didn't look back. Honestly whats next disscusing if maybe its ok to stone women to death?
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With that in mind, BBC still has a lot further go if they want to be anything like the jackassery of Fox News
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Oh, do I ever love Jon Stewart. :D
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He ceases to Amaze, I agree.
He jumped on their case today for dumbing themselves down when they are in fact Stanford/Oxford grads. The woman (I forget her name but she does the Morning show Fox & Friends or something) who apparently won Miss. America in '89 by playing some fantastic piece on the violin.
His response?:
"You're just dumbing yourself down to connect with an audience that you think sees intellect as an 'elitist flaw'."

However, back to BBC,
I listen to them daily on the NPR and I have never really heard them make any journalistic slip ups like this before, but I can't believe that that ideal, if you can call it that, is up for debate.
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Eh. I've given up on the media. Nobody is objective -- they all have a liberal bent, conservative bent, or they try so hard not to be politically incorrect that they allow stupid things like BBC's recent screw up. So I try to discern the facts out of the slew of commentary, and try to form my own opinions.
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I think majority of America, at this point, is on the same page.

I listen to BBC, Daily Show, MSNBC, CNN, and I watch Fox News for laughs. I also read the local paper, I read Newsweek like it's my Bible, and I tend to skim through Time (lately they're trying so hard to remove any bias their articles lack emotion or even basic human response. It's always facts, numbers, and simple quotations.)
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Pft, before I read it I thought it was a debate about executing gays in UK.

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