tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post115588128681740580..comments2024-01-13T15:37:31.043+11:00Comments on THE BLANK PAGES OF THE AGE: THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN - SOUTHERN LEBANON STYLEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-35682607577893308702011-01-10T21:21:40.514+11:002011-01-10T21:21:40.514+11:00Many thanks.Many thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-1156033986359842782006-08-20T10:33:00.000+10:002006-08-20T10:33:00.000+10:00Gulliver, the delusion clearly starts with the BBC...Gulliver, the delusion clearly starts with the BBC.<BR/><BR/>Believe it or not, a study for the BBC Governors concluded in May of this year that its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict implicitly favours the Israeli side. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2162459,00.html<BR/><BR/>This, despite Orla Guerin's ranting and Barbara Plett's tears for the dying Chaiman Arafat. My favourite line from these deluded gasbags was this one. It's a real gem!<BR/><BR/>"The report focuses on news and current affairs output <B>during the period when Orla Guerin was the BBC's Middle East Correspondent</B> and concluded that there was 'little to suggest deliberate or systematic bias' in the coverage of the conflict. 'On the contrary, there was evidence of a commitment to be fair, accurate and impartial,' it said."<BR/><BR/>Give me a break, please!Wilbur Posthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536833829819929156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-1155955476106034412006-08-19T12:44:00.000+10:002006-08-19T12:44:00.000+10:00"Anonymous said... Does it really matter whether t..."Anonymous said... <BR/>Does it really matter whether the destruction was total or just widespread. Destruction's destruction isn't it?"<BR/><BR/>Right and that's not why I'm critical of Guerin. She blames Israel alone for the destruction whereas in truth Hizbullah was in the main responsible. <BR/><BR/>Her attempt to paint the entire town as having been flattened suggests that the Israelis indiscriminately bombed the town, which it did not. <BR/><BR/>Guerin states that Bint Jbeil was a town with a population of 7,000. Despite the destruction, very few people died there. That's a result of the IDF ensuring that the fighting wouldn't start until most of the civilian population had been cleared out in order to avert a humanitarian disaster. So is destruction of buildings to Guerin worse than destruction of lives on both sides? Must be, because she forgot to mention the destruction caused on the other side of the blue line where Hizbullah's rockets were landing (come to think of it she didn't even mention Hizbullah's rockets)!<BR/> <BR/>She also ignores the fact that Bint Jbeil was a Hizbullah command and control centre with underground tunnels housing sophisticated Iranian military hardware including some which played their part in the destruction above. Orla says nothing about that and instead gives the impression that Hizbullah fought the IDF with primitive anti-tank guns. <BR/><BR/>As another anonymous said above, she's a hypocrite because although she has stated in the past that it was her duty to tell both parts of a story, she was in complete and utter dereliction of that duty with this story.Wilbur Posthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536833829819929156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-1155947782754242262006-08-19T10:36:00.001+10:002006-08-19T10:36:00.001+10:00Does it really matter whether the destruction was ...Does it really matter whether the destruction was total or just widespread. Destruction's destruction isn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-1155942757046485822006-08-19T09:12:00.000+10:002006-08-19T09:12:00.000+10:00Congratulations for well and truly exposing this h...Congratulations for well and truly exposing this hypocrite. <BR/><BR/>Here's and except from an article on an interview she gave to David Rowan in 2003. Rowan is now editor of The Jewish Chronicle:-<BR/><BR/>"WHEN she reports on a suicide bombing, it is her duty at that time to mention any clear Israeli plans for retaliation. 'We're going to talk about it - because, although suicide bombings kill civilians, the retaliation undertaken by Israel will often kill civilians as well. I don't accept that anybody has the right to say, tell this part of the story and not that part.' The great problem, she says, is 'people are not listening with objective ears'."<BR/><BR/>I tried listening to Guerin's report from Southern Lebanon which you correctly entitle a "circus", and was left wondering where she told the Israeli "part of the story". <BR/><BR/>Can you help me find it please?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-1155939429682931522006-08-19T08:17:00.000+10:002006-08-19T08:17:00.000+10:00Why is it that the scant few reports the BBC has p...Why is it that the scant few reports the BBC has presented from the other side of the border in Northern Israel where 1 million people were also terrorized and hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes and civilians were also killed are generally brief, matter of fact and presented in an unemotional fashion?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-1155896303741014432006-08-18T20:18:00.000+10:002006-08-18T20:18:00.000+10:00Beautifully put Wilbur. The BBC has been getting a...Beautifully put Wilbur. The BBC has been getting away with this sort of thing for far too long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com