geni
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Which has what to do with the BBC? Or for that matter my position that life goes on is a logical attitude to take in resonce to terrorist action.
Mycroft
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Saying "life goes on" or "get on with your life" may sound as though you're advocating a passive response even if it's not your intent to do so.
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Rather like Dr Frankenstein I know I'm going to regret bringing life back to this thread, but an interesting independent report on BBC bias has just been published which I thought people would find enlightening. A report on the report is here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2162459.html
The interesting conclusion was:
The findings apparently surprised the BBC as well:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2162459.html
The interesting conclusion was:
The findings apparently surprised the BBC as well:
Looks as if the report is baised (or as if guilty of fuzzy logic):
"At the same time, there was “little reporting of the difficulties faced by the Palestinians in their daily lives” and a “failure to convey adequately the disparity in the Israeli and Palestinian experience, reflecting the fact that one side is in control and the other side lives under occupation”."
- Assumption of guilt and victim status.
"Led by Sir Quentin Thomas, the president of the British Board of Film Classification, the Governors’ study group analysed a period between August 2005 and January this year in which 98 Palestinians were killed and there were up to 23 Israeli fatalities.
The findings were seized upon by pro-Palestinian groups. Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, said: “When research consistently shows that fatalities from one side of a conflict — the party that has by far the least number — are more frequently covered, then this must raise alarm bells.” "
- Does the report even begin to mention what proportion of Palestinian casualties are:
1) Militants
2) results of Palestinian on Palestinian violence?
Because it might be argued that external attacks against school buses are more newsworthy than (1) counterstrikes against bombmakers or (2) internal strife.
All this means is that either the BBC Governors or the people they got to do the study are even more biased than the regular BBC...
"At the same time, there was “little reporting of the difficulties faced by the Palestinians in their daily lives” and a “failure to convey adequately the disparity in the Israeli and Palestinian experience, reflecting the fact that one side is in control and the other side lives under occupation”."
- Assumption of guilt and victim status.
"Led by Sir Quentin Thomas, the president of the British Board of Film Classification, the Governors’ study group analysed a period between August 2005 and January this year in which 98 Palestinians were killed and there were up to 23 Israeli fatalities.
The findings were seized upon by pro-Palestinian groups. Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, said: “When research consistently shows that fatalities from one side of a conflict — the party that has by far the least number — are more frequently covered, then this must raise alarm bells.” "
- Does the report even begin to mention what proportion of Palestinian casualties are:
1) Militants
2) results of Palestinian on Palestinian violence?
Because it might be argued that external attacks against school buses are more newsworthy than (1) counterstrikes against bombmakers or (2) internal strife.
All this means is that either the BBC Governors or the people they got to do the study are even more biased than the regular BBC...