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Still, I think the quality of reporting is a lot higher in the UK - BBC 24 always seems to feed me a lot more information than Sky. European news in general did really well; no surprises there [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
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[b]I don't think the media has so much of a liberal bias as they do a "self" bias, basicly the premise that what they report is important and no other news is. I think a lot of important issues go completely unnoticed in this country while the media is busy telling us who J-Lo is dating at the moment, or almost completely focusing on the conflict in Isreal (where number of people killed is in the thousands) while almost completely ignoring the hundreds of thousands that die due to conflicts in Africa.
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Agreed, but when they focus on the conflict part of the conflict in Israel, it is of Palestinian suicide bomber attacks not the far more numerous and lethal Israeli attacks except when they are on a large scale. Sometimes, you hear that Israel is reoccupying the West Bank or something but that is meaningless unless you include what that entails. Furthermore, they exclusively report Israeli government figures for dead and wounded rather than Israeli, Palestinian, independent journalist or aid agency testimonial. They typically do this style of reporting everywhere there is an official enemy and or ally.
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[b] Agreed, but when they focus on the conflict part of the conflict in Israel, it is of Palestinian suicide bomber attacks not the far more numerous and lethal Israeli attacks except when they are on a large scale. Sometimes, you hear that Israel is reoccupying the West Bank or something but that is meaningless unless you include what that entails. Furthermore, they exclusively report Israeli government figures for dead and wounded rather than Israeli, Palestinian, independent journalist or aid agency testimonial. They typically do this style of reporting everywhere there is an official enemy and or ally.
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And how reliable are any of those? Not very. The Palistinian counts are usually overstated.
[This message has been edited by rhett (edited 10-25-2002).]
There was a very interesting chart in the press the other day, tracking relative rates of Palestinian and Israeli dead - compiled from the reports of a number of charities and organisations working in the area, rather than government statistics - and you'd not be surprised to note that vastly more Palestinians were dead.
So to respond off-hand, and simply say they're 'overstating' figures is simply the work of an idiot - regardless of whether you think the reports are being played up in the press, people are struggling and dying out there. Better yet do you know enough to say they're not reliable? That they may be any less reliable the Israeli figures?
It sounds to me like you're talking with a bias - which is incredibly sad, if true; but if that's the only reply you can come back on Faylorn with then, hey, it looks like the truth might win through after all.