Our Falklands War...bbc i player

At the time it was emphasised that it was the Falklands Conflict not the Falklands War, some legal difference I think. Does anyone know why please?

just googled your query

Falkland Islands War, also called Falklands War, Malvinas War, or South Atlantic War, a brief undeclared war fought between Argentina and Great Britain in 1982 over control of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and associated island dependencies.

If anyones view this they will see it was war!

lemsip wrote If anyones view this they will see it was war!

Oh it was on television every day at the time.

Having first known of World War 2 only long after it had finished and we had won, I never knew what it felt like to be in England in 1940 wondering what would happen if the invasion were to happen.

Yet with the Falklands Conflict I did not know how it would end.

I saw live on television John Nott in the street in Downing Street reading out the telegram over the liberation of South Georgia.

I heard the man saying about he was not allowed to say how many and about counting them out and counting them back.

Yet at the time it was explicitly the Falklands Conflict not the Falklands War.

If retrospectively the media edits what happened in history for whatever reason, then that that difference was emphasised at the time is lost.

What else of history is being edited?

I heard the man saying about he was not allowed to say how many and about counting them out and counting them back

Brian Hanrahan (22 March 1949 – 20 December 2010) was the Diplomatic Editor for BBC News and a well known correspondent.
"I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out, and I counted them all back"

A great loss to journalism.

Whatever niggles people may have about semantics, it was a very worrying time with loss of life on both sides. We have friends who went and survived and I was worried that DH would be sent there; particularly as we had a newborn baby.

Yes, it was a very worrying time with loss of life on both sides.

But it is not, in my opinion, a niggle. It was emphasised at the time and is now being lost. Why?

I appreciate that it could be labelled as pedantry and laughed away but at the time it was made clear and thus was seen as significant.

At the time I remember some questionable reporting.

In particular, one BBC news bulletin early on after the invasion said that the Argentinian (I forget his exact title) has said that technically (one country) is at war with (the other country), I forget which way round.

Later they showed what had happened.

At a New York airport, a tired-looking elderly man had arrived and was on his way to the United Nations.

A reporter asked about Is (one country) at war with (the other country) and he said either "Technically, yes" or "Yes, technically".

So the BBC had stated that he had said it, but in fact he had answered a question while walking, not acually said it.

The BBC could have reported "When asked ... he replied ... " but the BBC did not. Why?

lemsip

Ten Men tell their story of what they experienced at war in the Falklands War... 40 years on.

Not for the faint hearted........

Yes, I watched it lemsip

Those ten men, and others, are still suffering today as a result of their experiences.

We also watched the programme about the 69 Royal Marines who were stationed there originally:
A Royal Marine corporal was told "you will die tonight" as he prepared to defend the Falkland Islands from Argentine forces. Now 40 years on he recalls being one of just 69 British servicemen who mounted a hopeless defence against thousands of invaders.

Also on BBC iPlayer

They have suffered 40 years of undeserved damage to their reputations due to adverse, unfounded media reports at the time and Margaret Thatcher's order for them to remain silent.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-60940158

It's time the true story was better known.

(I saw live on television John Nott in the street in Downing Street reading),,,,,,,,,,,
I used to get up in the early hours to watch latest news of the war..... from John Nott.
watching the bombing of the Hms Sheffield and then Hms Coventry was shocking to see.

Can we get back to Lemsip’s thread without further digressions /semantic nitpicking or anecdotes about live television (as if it was something unusual) which we all saw please?

If anyone is looking for the programme on iPlayer, time and date here:
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/our-falklands-war-a-frontline-story

Ben Fogle's excellent programme of the 69 Royal Marines who were already stationed on The Falklands was on ITV, date in this link:
www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/falklands-war-forgotten-battle-exclusive-newsupdate/