> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: Thursday, December 27, 2001 18:33 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: Tragedy in Israel
> > To illustrate my point: a German acquaintance of mine moved to the US > > a few months ago to study (postdoc) at an US university. He quickly > > stopped getting the news from the US media and turned to European > > news sites to keep up-to-date on events in the world. According to > > him, the news he got from the US media tended to be "biased and > > distorted". > > > Well, it was from a different slant than the news he had received. It > could very well be that he was reacting to a lack of bias. How does he > know that the earlier news wasn�t biased? He is a pretty smart guy; if he says there is a bias and distortion in the US media that he did not see in the European media, I have no reason to doubt him. > I don't know about the Dutch or German press. I do know that the BBC > has a reasonable reputation, and it just has a different perspective > than CNN. The BBC has an excellent reputation, actually -- as was shown once again with the Sept. 11 attacks. > Indeed, conservatives here think that the American press has a decided > leftist bias. While the progressive part of the population probably thinks the American press has a decided right-wing bias... > But, the source of my questions concerning the European press come from > what you write. You have quoted newspaper acounts from Europe that > accuse Israel of doing things that are physically impossible. Such as? > You have stated that you have never read anything good about Israel. > That sounds tremendously biased to me. What we get here are reports about what goes on over there. Israel is waging war against the Palestinians; how *can* there be anything good to say about a country that behaves the way Israel does? Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
