Interesting to see how nobody is buying it in that thread apart from a few sock puppets or clueless drip-fed idiots. It's also interesting to note that they haven't "cleaned" the thread up and the critical tweets although in this case they would have to remove 95% of the content as they really savage Sommerville.
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Oh ffs. Don't BBC staff feel embarrassed by having to run such chintzy propaganda? And for Al Qaeda?
What for? The regime change-by-salafist proxy campaign has failed.
The AQ head-choppers have nowhere else to go. What's BBC's excuse? Good soldiers, just following orders?
This type of bullshit is exactly why people with the slightest of intellect do not watch the BBC.
News is supposed to be about facts. As it is, you are just another BBC propaganda merchant. But then, your name is Quentin! 0 replies . 0 retweets 0 likes
C'mon Quentin. You've done (some) good reporting on Syria, you know that what you're doing here is whitewashing Al Qaeda, and attempting to prevent Syria from conquering Al Qaeda's mini-state. Have you no shame?
No wonder "they" want more control of social media; those damned plebs seem to be refusing to be told what to think.