On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Did Dyke say all this with a straight face? Let’s look at what > research shows about the BBC’s reporting of Iraq.
Perhaps everyone chooses to see what he wants, then?. I do remember not being able to stand American news channels, and switching to the BBC which at least offered two sides of the coin. I didn´t watch the newscast 24/7, but I did watch several BBC programmes that offered the anti-war angle. For instance I remember "Hard Talk" -back then with Tim Sebastian airing this where Ken O'Keefe dodged every bullet fired by Sebastian : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ac3hhxEql4 Or the BBC airing John Simpson´s critical reports before the war on his program dubbed "Simpson´s World". (sadly I´ve looked for those on Youtube, and couldn´t find them on-line, but I sure remember taping those on ancient VHS, which I now have in storage). Then Simpson went to report on the ground, and it was in one report of the deaths by friendly fire that Simpson was injured himself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_HmwktvRGc About the "study" quoted: what BBC? There´s several BBC stations for internal consuption in the UK, and several international signals, each geared to a given region. For instance, what I´m receiving down here in South America is not the same BBC International signal that someone in the USA gets. Nor is it the same as what someone in Asia gets. Oh well, in any case if you want put a lighter spin on this, here´s Bill Bailey´s comparison of American news channels and the BBC during the Iraq war... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEPcUWk8xEo ;-) FC _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
