-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Goanetters annual meet in Goa is scheduled for Dec 27, 2005 @ 4pm | | | |The Riviera Opposite Hotel Mandovi, Panjim (near Ferry Jetty/Riverfront)| | Attending.......drop a line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A visit to the website will show that the "Honest Reporting" > website is a dishonest attempt to malign people and reputed > news organizations while spreading ultra right-wing > propoganda (sic). Best ignored. > Mario responds: > Apparently, George prefers to believe the falsehoods by Reuters, The Guardian, CNN and the BBC, among others, that are documented on the web site HonestReporting.com. In the meantime, George has not pointed out a single example of a falsehood on this web site. > Others, who have a better sense of the curious sympathy that left-wingers have had for the 60 year attempt to wipe Israel off the map - initially written into the PLO Charter, and recently confirmed by public statements by Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zuwahiri and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - should visit the web site and make up their own minds. > Here are some specific examples that George would like ignored: > Example 1: The Guardian found itself red-faced by what became known as Sassygate: As exposed by blogger Scott Burgess, the Manchester-based paper hired trainee journalist Dilpazier Aslam, whose coverage of July's London terror attacks included a commentary sympathizing with the bombers. It turned out that Aslam was a member of Hizb Ut Tahrir, an Islamist organization which calls for the destruction of Israel and the rule of a world-wide caliphate. When the dust settled, Aslam was fired and the paper's executive editor for news, Albert Scardino resigned. Aslam is now suing The Guardian for "racial and religious discrimination." > Example 2: The February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri shocked even the most cynical Mideast experts. Syrian propaganda, predictably blaming Israel, was echoed by the North American syndicated columnist Eric Margolis. Ironically, the same week that the Mehlis report to the UN on Hariri's murder was released, Margolis gave a soapbox to unsubstantiated claims that Israel had a hand in the 1988 plane crash that killed Pakistani dictator Zia Ul-Haq. > Example 3: When terrorists linked to Al-Qaida struck the London transportation system in July, many thought the BBC would finally use the word "terror" to describe the wanton attacks on civilians. To their credit, a small handful of initial reports did. But appearances of the "t-word" in initial coverage were soon removed from the BBC's web site (but not before Tom Gross documented the inconsistencies). Yet Roger Mosey, the head of BBC's television news, contradicted BBC policy when he wrote in The Guardian that there was no ban in the first place! > Roger Mosey, "Then there has been a controversy about our use of language - particularly the question of whether the BBC banned the word "terrorist". There is no ban. It's true the word is contentious in some contexts on our international services, hence the recommendation that it be employed with care. But we have used and will continue to use the words terror, terrorism and terrorist - as we did in all our flagship bulletins from Thursday." > Not surprisingly, subsequent coverage of the London bombings and their aftermath remained "terror" free. At the end of the year, however, The Guardian reported that BBC journalists received new "guidance" discouraging-but not banning-the "t-word." Time will tell if this will have a positive impact in 2006.
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