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>Watching BBC versus CNN or heaven forbid FOX
Funny, I was glued to the tube, hardly slept, watched all 3 and Fox was the
only channel not leading, feeding, makeing political statments as questions,
diging for dirt where there was none, inventing dirt out of alternate
interpritations of statments which were clearly not what was originaly ment,
showing war as if death and distruction could be avoided, leaving out
importatant information which altered a story significatly, comentary by
"SME's" who had no idea what they were supposed to be experts on, storied
showing only halph truths, stories about things that just didn't happen, miss
paraphrasing, and false news. Both CNN and BBC showed rebrodcasts from AG
which were clear violations of the GCs. Both CNN and BBC showed US soldirs in
a bad way before their family could be notified. Both CNN and BBC rebrodcast
or quoted false news brodcast by AG, or worse Iragi TV and BDB. There
traslations where horindous, they were behind on nearly every story, often by
hours and sometimes by days (and they still got them wrong). CNN had many
embeded reporters who were simply asked to leave (contributing to their lack
of real news). Fox had one reporter cought looting, several reporters KIA.
I remember one story in particular where a small white car had driven at high
speeds tward a US force position. The US snipers took out the car killing
most in the car. On CNN the story (5 hours later) was "US troops
indiscrimintly murder civilians, why?". On Fox they showed the troops
involved, some of them teary eyed and shooken up. They showed one US troop
holding and consoling a surviver who spoke english and was asking "why,
why?". Tee troop explained that the car rushed the position after loud verbal
warnings and warning shots. Then an interview with the comanding officer who
gave the order to fire. CNN? Nothing but shots of the mangled car and a
talking head saying that US troops took out the car with civilians inside and
something to the effect that -there is no known reason why they did this-.
I can really understand how those who watched CNN or BBC exclusivly got such
a skewed view. Sad really.
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