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25 Mar 2008, 2:21 pm
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BBC's Blunder
The British Broadcasting Corporation has acknowledged further inaccuracies in its coverage of Mideast violence.
Last week the BBC apologized for wrongly reporting that the home of a Palestinian gunman who killed eight Israelis at a rabbinical seminary — was destroyed by an Israeli bulldozer. In fact — the house is still standing and the images broadcast were of another demolition.
But in a second news item on its Web site on March 14 — the BBC reported that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned an Israeli operation against Kassam rocket-launch sites in Gaza — and described it as an attack on Palestinian civilians.
As it turns out — Ban's attributed comments were made to the U.N. Security Council two weeks before the Israeli operation — and were not in reference to any particular attack. In fact — the secretary general did not describe any Israeli operation as an attack on civilians.
The British Broadcasting Corporation has acknowledged further inaccuracies in its coverage of Mideast violence.
Last week the BBC apologized for wrongly reporting that the home of a Palestinian gunman who killed eight Israelis at a rabbinical seminary — was destroyed by an Israeli bulldozer. In fact — the house is still standing and the images broadcast were of another demolition.
But in a second news item on its Web site on March 14 — the BBC reported that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned an Israeli operation against Kassam rocket-launch sites in Gaza — and described it as an attack on Palestinian civilians.
As it turns out — Ban's attributed comments were made to the U.N. Security Council two weeks before the Israeli operation — and were not in reference to any particular attack. In fact — the secretary general did not describe any Israeli operation as an attack on civilians.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,341189,00.html
Oops! Looks like the BBC was mistakenly anti-Semitic to the point of lying in its news coverage about Israel once, and indeed twice again, since the last time this happened, when their internal audit revealed a bias against Israel in practice in their news reporting.
That's three strikes.
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26 Mar 2008, 11:37 am
velodog wrote:
The us news media was complicit in covering up Israel's actions, like attacking the USS Liberty, the Massacre at Deir Yassin and the Sabra/Shatilla massacre to the extent that many Americans still view Israel as innocent victims when, in fact, it was the founding Fathers of Israel who initiated the use of Political terrorism in the Palestine Mandate in the 1930's.
Ignoring the falsehoods in your post, including the assumption that the U.S. is unduely cooperative with Israel -- which is, after all, a fellow democracy, and the most civilized country in the Middle East by a good margin -- are you saying that this alleged overfriendliness toward Israel by the U.S. means that the BBC should "even the score", so to speak, by making up outright lies and airing them as news?
Why do the people of Britain deserve to be lied to?
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