the end of sky news

On Sunday the people of Iraq voted in their second ever genuinely free election.

They were able to vote because President George Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair, the American and British armies along with gallant allies from Spain, Poland, Italy and elsewhere, had taken the courageous heroic decision in the year 2003 to put an end to Saddam Hussein's family murderocracy.

It was not an easy decision for President Bush.

The world has not thanked him for it.

But here we are.

The second democratic election in Iraq's history.

And Uday and Qusay are no longer waiting in the wings to take up where their murdering Daddy left off.

All thanks to America and President Bush.

 

The major news networks of the planet earth reported the Iraq elections as their main story in all their bulletins throughout the day.

There was genuine recognition, even among anti American stations like Russia Today and the Nazi channel Al Jazeera, that something momentous was happening.

The anti Bush CNN had a long and insightful report with interesting footage, perhaps mainly because they wanted to siphon off some of the credit for President Barack Obama.

The Hindus at New Delhi Television and the Chinese at CCTV also reported the elections with a positive slant.

There was no credit given to President Bush or the American army.

But if you read between the lines, the credit was there.

 

Alone among the major networks, Sky News did not report the Iraq elections as the major story of the day.

 

Here were the stories in order of precedence featured on Sky's ten o'clock bulletin.

1. A story about three people falling to their death from a high rise building in Glasgow. (This was Sky's top story.)

2. A story about an adult person who had killed a toddler child while he himself was still a child, being rearrested in Britain for unspecified breaches of his bail conditions.

3. A threatened strike in the English civil service.

4. The Queen getting ready to make a speech.

5. A story about police actions against men seeking the services of prostitutes in a British city.

6. A Pakistani boy with British citizenship has been kidnapped in Pakistan.

7. A British soldier has been shot in Afghanistan.

8. A murder in London.

 

The ninth story on the Sky News evening bulletin was announced as "President Barrack Obama today welcomed the latest elections in Iraq."

It was number nine on the list.

Sky's belated mention of the Iraq elections gave a brief nod to Barrack before itemising a series of explosions and catastrophes which Sky claimed had engulfed Iraq on polling day.

Funny that the other news networks, the Lord Haw Haws of Al Jazeera and the Commissars of Russia Today included, did not seem to notice this wave of violence ruining the Iraqi elections.

They would have been looking out for it.

 

Sky News is finished.

They're gone.

The editorial decision, on a slow news day, to all but ignore the Iraqi elections and then to deliberately diminish them with negative reporting, elections representing the first best hope of a long suffering now risen people, elections vouchsafed by years of heroism from Britain's own soldier heroes, the decision to downplay this, just out of a mean minded left wing detestation for President Bush, just that, this venal mean minded editorial decision ends Sky News.

 

 

 

 

Post script: Sky News major advertiser is the Royal Family of Qatar who also finance Al Jazeera. Sky News has almost no other significant revenue stream than the money which comes to them from these medieval Islamists.