BBC Documentaries

Simply a great example of pure objectivity making sense out of a subject. Be it War in Iraq or the effects of stress in our every day lives. I love watching them (from whatever time I can gather albeit serendipitous). The best part is that the narration does not take sides and seems totally at ease no matter the seriousness of the issue at hand. I am not a great authority on journalistic traditions nor I intend to be one, but it does not take a genius to understand the quality BBC brings in its work.

However unfortunate the circumstances leading up to the 24 hr strike, BBC got the story disspassionately from both sides of the camp. It becomes much more difficult to be professional given the fire is in your own camp. I do not understand the seriousness of laying of jobs at the BBC but I am worried if there can be a possible impact. But I am sure, though I do not have logical ground in believing but simple faith, BBC will hold its own and uphold its very high standards of Journalistic discourse.

BBC is different from their American counter part. BBC does not bend to political muscle and does not let emotions like patriotism get in its way -- Classic example the clinical examination of Blair's handling of the Iraq War and documentaries highlighting technological inadequacies of Red Caps (British Marines) in Iraq. This simply cannot be expected from the American news barons-- Their objectivity evaporates when their own creed is at fault and under the whim of Dubya and his friends.

In hindsight, I grew up believing that a feeling of Patriotism is sacrosanct. But its only lately that I have realised that its just an emotion. It should not be allowed to cloud our objectivity as all emotions have the propensity to do just that. When misinformation spreads and emotions run high sanity is lost, chaos reigns supreme. The only end to this potboiler is objective thinking. We have amongst us plenty of conspiracy theorists basking in their flawed metaphysics forseeing doom and destructions. There are many flavors, some talk of aliens, others apocalypse, and others assume a more sinister role of beguiling youths in the name of Jihad. We engage in our own revulsive worship of our respective egos taking pride and kicking objective reasoning to trash.

In our pride lies the greatest fall.

"He who meets the enemy in haste will perish like the locusts in a fire."
~Panchatantra~

Pride clouds our assessment of our enemy (personification of our objective)--classic cliche David vs Goliath. Its not that David was weak, No! He was strong but not in an obvious way- he had a powerful and accurate abilty to sling shot, which Goliath did not assess. Every challenge can be surmounted, it has nothing to do with a persons ability, only way he/she must figure out is "How?".

I am glad that BBC is around (I do not know much about CBS' reporting so I apologise for any disrespect ). Hope I can bring the same objectivity to my work.