http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...nt/6960348.stm

What's the point of sending a gullible reporter who can't even read the national language of the country he is covering (which is spoken by hundreds of millions around the globe) ?

Oh well, he's paid by tax payer money, so who cares ?

you might want to explain for those who don't "get it"?

My point is: the BBC sent a reporter to Egypt who can't read arabic (maybe even can't speak it).
This means he gets all his information second hand, thru "fixers" etc.

What's the use of a deaf and dumb reporter ?

ah, sorry, failed to spot that. Hardly makes the person illiterate though, does it? Just calls into question BBC reporting management decisions if anything.

Imagine it working the other way: Egyptians sending a reporter to England who can't read road signs.

For all practicle reasons the man is illiterate.

Unfortunately the BBC thinks that English is only language worth knowing - east and west of Suez.

Ah, the BBC. Some groups have had a bit of run-in with them at a huge re-enactment event at Detling this weekend over their Panorama program 'Weekend Nazis'. There's undoubtedly a few of them in some of the SS groups and generally speaking we try and avoid all contact with them (although we did plan to dress up in grey striped pyjamas and follow the SS reenactors around all day just to really p*** them off).
However, we were talking with a bunch of lads who were from the midlands who portray an Austrian mountain troop unit. Two were married to women who were black, two were Jewish and all of them were quite resentful of the Nazi sympathisers in the SS groups, yet the BBC crew had tried to trap some of them into looking bad, as well as tarring every other group regardless of time period. It wasn't even news - most of this had been brought up more than five years ago.
We do late Roman, yet they were originally trying to get something out of us too. We don't talk to them because no matter what you say, they'll edit it how they want.
Twunts.
Bloody good weekend, though.

Their standard of reporting is going down hill fast as well, Just heard on Monday that according to the BBC Estonia has moved and is now a Nordic country

However, if the reporter had been fluent in Arabic, we would never have realised that robberies on foreigners go unreported!

Oh come now, he wasn't that far off. Estonia is in Europe, is part of the EU and is really close to Finland. If Denmark is Nordic, couldn't Estonia be?