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The Owen Jones Podcast

BBC’s OUTRAGEOUS Greenland Reporting - This Is RIDICULOUS

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

This is ridiculous. This is a slam dunk example of BBC bias and a BBC's failure to do journalism,

0:07.6

to tell you what's actually going on in the world. Let's just listen to this clip from BBC Breakfast.

0:12.4

It's from this morning. It's discussing Donald Trump, the United States and Greenland.

0:16.2

Good morning, six o'clock. Welcome to Breakfast with Sally Nugent and John Kay.

0:20.1

Our headlines for you today. Using the American military to acquire Greenland,

0:24.3

the White House says it's one of the options President Trump and his team are discussing.

0:29.2

Let me just read that back. Let's just read back what was said.

0:33.8

Using the American military to acquire Greenland. The White House says it's one of the options Trump and his team are discussing.

0:41.6

If you're wondering what that noise is, it's a howl of pain emanating from the grave of George Orwell.

0:48.5

Using the American military to acquire Greenland.

0:52.0

Acquire.

0:53.0

Is there any other word in English language that might be,

0:55.5

I don't know, maybe a bit more appropriate. I mean, there are, after all, around 170,000 words

1:00.5

in current use in English. It's not like there's a lack of options here. A little thought

1:05.2

experiment for you. Imagine a story was about Russia talking about Latvia? Would the BBC say, using the Russian military

1:13.1

to acquire Latvia? Can you imagine? Do any of you think of one moment that would happen?

1:18.6

Now, we all know what they would say. They would correctly say, by the way, that Russia is

1:23.0

threatening to invade Latvia and annex it. That's what they'd say. They would foreground

1:27.0

the fact that this

1:27.7

would be an act of armed aggression and illegal act of armed aggression at that. Note the text as well.

1:32.7

They're using on their on-screen banner, US Greenland plans. Euphemistic doesn't even begin to

1:40.1

describe it. They're talking about it like, I don't know, government plans for transport or education.

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