JJ_BPK
07-24-2008, 17:58
I just grabbed this off SFA.
I have already posted a complaint to the BBC and asked for a reply.
I would request the QP's do likewise..
Green Berets blaimed for My Lai Massacre
A few days ago, some famous BBC reporter named Sir Charles Wheeler died. From the obits yin all the press, you would think it was the President of the World. This asshole has been reporting anti-American crap since his first appearance before a microphone. Good riddance, I say.
But there is a serious issue involved here. Last evening, the BBC did a documentary on this guy's life as a journalist. At one point, while it was showing combat scenes from Vietnam, John Humphreys, who was reading the script while the film strips were running, told of how Wheeler reported in detail on the "Green Berets" massacre at My Lai". In other words, it was the "Green Berets" who committed those war crimes at My Lai!!!
Any member who would like to send a complaint to the BBC can go to the following link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
Example:
Sirs,
My complaint concerns a Mr John Humphrey’s prime time broadcast on 22 July, 2008. Mr Humphrey’s, hopefully, was trying to educate some of the BBC’s viewers of the events that took place in March 1968 in a Vietnamese village called My Lai.
Mr. Humphrey’s incorrectly stated that the “My Lai Massacre” in which American soldiers of Company C, 11th Brigade, Americal Division killed Vietnamese civilians was carried out by American Green Berets. This report was false and insulting to every US Army Special Forces Soldier who has served or are still serving in this capacity.
This term “Green Berets” is generally not widely used in real Special Forces circles and signals a sign of false representation, the media or both.
The BBC should correct this error: Mr. John Humphrey’s should personally correct his mistack to his audience.
__________________
De Oppresso Liber
M S
Secretary/Executive Director
Special Forces Association
I have already posted a complaint to the BBC and asked for a reply.
I would request the QP's do likewise..
Green Berets blaimed for My Lai Massacre
A few days ago, some famous BBC reporter named Sir Charles Wheeler died. From the obits yin all the press, you would think it was the President of the World. This asshole has been reporting anti-American crap since his first appearance before a microphone. Good riddance, I say.
But there is a serious issue involved here. Last evening, the BBC did a documentary on this guy's life as a journalist. At one point, while it was showing combat scenes from Vietnam, John Humphreys, who was reading the script while the film strips were running, told of how Wheeler reported in detail on the "Green Berets" massacre at My Lai". In other words, it was the "Green Berets" who committed those war crimes at My Lai!!!
Any member who would like to send a complaint to the BBC can go to the following link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
Example:
Sirs,
My complaint concerns a Mr John Humphrey’s prime time broadcast on 22 July, 2008. Mr Humphrey’s, hopefully, was trying to educate some of the BBC’s viewers of the events that took place in March 1968 in a Vietnamese village called My Lai.
Mr. Humphrey’s incorrectly stated that the “My Lai Massacre” in which American soldiers of Company C, 11th Brigade, Americal Division killed Vietnamese civilians was carried out by American Green Berets. This report was false and insulting to every US Army Special Forces Soldier who has served or are still serving in this capacity.
This term “Green Berets” is generally not widely used in real Special Forces circles and signals a sign of false representation, the media or both.
The BBC should correct this error: Mr. John Humphrey’s should personally correct his mistack to his audience.
__________________
De Oppresso Liber
M S
Secretary/Executive Director
Special Forces Association