Feedback | 7 June 2003

Comment on Television creates terrorists by Patrick Sookhdeo (31/05/2003)

Dr Patrick Sookhdeo is the second Spectator contributor in the past few weeks to express the view that the world should hear and see a good deal less about the world than he thinks is right.

What we can do about the stuff that concerns Dr Patrick Sookhdeo isn’t all that clear: bomb the TV broadcasters he disapproves of? Already done in Belgrade and Iraq and Kabul, and we must be running out of nations that have little choice but to grit their teeth ad take it. Qatar, which your correspondent correctly names as the home of Al-jazeera, is a “friendly” nation used as general headquarters for the recent unpleasantness in Iraq.

I’m afraid your correspondent belongs to the long-lived burgeoning school that thinks it ain’t whut we does that matters, it’s whut them others says we does. In other words, kill the messenger.