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Originally posted by ivanhoe
Did the Guardian attack the BBC for its anti-Israel and pro-Hezbollah bias ?
Why should they do that here? It's a completely straight report of what someone said.

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Originally posted by dottewell
Why should they do that here? It's a completely straight report of what someone said.
.... and now it is up to us to believe it, right ?

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
.... and now it is up to us to believe it, right ?
Which bit, if any, are you claiming is factually incorrect?

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Originally posted by dottewell
Which bit, if any, are you claiming is factually incorrect?
It's a laughable premise that anyone would be responding to criticism
claiming that the BBC's coverage of the Lebanon conflict has been (too)
pro-Israeli. I've never seen anything on BBC that's pro-Israeli.

ivanhoe's link address's the substance of this thread, as the
MediaGuardian.co.uk piece speaks of particular criticism levelled
at BBC correspondent Orla Guerin.

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Originally posted by xs
ivanhoe's link address's the substance of this thread, as the
MediaGuardian.co.uk piece speaks of particular criticism levelled
at BBC correspondent Orla Guerin.
No, it doesn't. I wasn't interested in the Orla Guerin issue, since that has been addressed elsewhere. That's why I didn't include it.

Now is there anything factually incorrect in what the BBC is claiming here, or not?

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Originally posted by xs
It's a laughable premise that anyone would be responding to criticism
claiming that the BBC's coverage of the Lebanon conflict has been (too)
pro-Israeli. I've never seen anything on BBC that's pro-Israeli.
But if you don't attack them, how are you ever going to get them to say the things you want them to say,

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Originally posted by xs
[b]It's a laughable premise that anyone would be responding to criticism
claiming that the BBC's coverage of the Lebanon conflict has been (too)
pro-Israeli. I've never seen anything on BBC that's pro-Israeli.
Well the Israeli spokesman seems to be permantently on my radio. We must not let Hisbollah re-arm. I'm sitting there thinking well thats ok. Perhaps we shouldn't let you guys re-arm either.

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Originally posted by dottewell
No, it doesn't. I wasn't interested in the Orla Guerin issue, since that has been addressed elsewhere. That's why I didn't include it.

Now is there anything factually incorrect in what the BBC is claiming here, or not?
Dottewell: "No, it doesn't. I wasn't interested in the Orla Guerin issue, since that has been addressed elsewhere .... "

ROTFLMSO 😀 😲 😀

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The BBC's Jim Muir on reporting restrictions in Lebanon:

“There have basically been no restrictions on reporting as such - there’s been no pressure in any direction with regard to anything we actually say, indeed very little interaction of any sort. There was however an issue at the beginning of the conflict over the live broadcast of pictures of rockets going out from locations visible from our live camera position. We were visited by Hezbollah representatives and told that by showing the exact location of firing we were endangering civilian lives, and that our equipment would be confiscated.”
So Hezbollah admitted to the BBC that they were firing from civilian areas. Did Muir or any other BBC journalist report this?