Margaret Thatcher papers: BBC 'assisted the enemy during the Falklands War'

The former prime minister wrote that she was “very angry” at some of the corporation’s coverage, which she thought placed more value on reporting the latest developments than on “the safety of our forces”.
In her autobiography, Baroness Thatcher criticised the “chilling use of the third person” in bulletins that referred to “the British” rather than “our soldiers”. But she had already written a far stronger attack on the corporation in a private memoir of the conflict, which will be released on Friday after her family donated it and other papers to a public archive in lieu of inheritance tax. 

“Many of the public (including me) did not like the attitude particularly of the BBC and I was very worried about it,” she wrote in the note, which she kept secret even from her private secretaries. “They were sometimes reporting as if they were neutral between Britain and Argentina. At other times we felt strongly that they were assisting the enemy by open discussions with experts on the next likely steps in the campaign.
“My concern was always the safety of our forces. Theirs was news.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/11684868/Margaret-Thatcher-papers-BBC-assisted-the-enemy-during-the-Falklands-War.html


Lets be honest, do we expect anything less from some of the extreme left like the BBC?

Belatucadros wrote:The former prime minister wrote that she was “very angry” at some of the corporation’s coverage, which she thought placed more value on reporting the latest developments than on “the safety of our forces”.
In her autobiography, Baroness Thatcher criticised the “chilling use of the third person” in bulletins that referred to “the British” rather than “our soldiers”. But she had already written a far stronger attack on the corporation in a private memoir of the conflict, which will be released on Friday after her family donated it and other papers to a public archive in lieu of inheritance tax. 

“Many of the public (including me) did not like the attitude particularly of the BBC and I was very worried about it,” she wrote in the note, which she kept secret even from her private secretaries. “They were sometimes reporting as if they were neutral between Britain and Argentina. At other times we felt strongly that they were assisting the enemy by open discussions with experts on the next likely steps in the campaign.
“My concern was always the safety of our forces. Theirs was news.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/11684868/Margaret-Thatcher-papers-BBC-assisted-the-enemy-during-the-Falklands-War.html


Lets be honest, do we expect anything less from some of the extreme left like the BBC?

In many ways she was correct but that`s the news for you some times it does`nt show you in a good light depending on the side your on
the same could be said of reports today about terrorists and wars around the world i am often aghast at what is broadcast that i feel could be of great assistance to them
but as i said on an other thread news is news if we start censoring things that are not of operational importance we risk a cloak and dagger society where the government decides what is broadcast on policy rather than legitimate news and then we are on a slippery slope to George Orwell`s New-speak world

We already have 'news-speak' in The media and double speak' by our politicians.



And what do you expect from the left with anti-British BBC...?