Something new every day

Bias oozes from the Beeb. Or maybe B-BBC commenters are just brilliant at noticing.

However, I have a couple of items I think from other blogs (including dear old DFH) which must have an airing here. Here’s the rigorous Richard North’s observations about the self-satisfied John Simpson’s easy going attitude to body-armour (one could extend this observation, but one would look uncharitable):

“had he been in Kiryat Shmona during a Hezbolla rocket attack, he would have been running for his life to the nearest shelter. But there you go… that’s discrimination for you”

I notice in the wake of the Qana controversy that EU Ref’s about to pass this blog’s hits recorded by Sitemeter- having experienced a remarkable spurt in traffic. Well, good on them for all the good work they’ve been doing.

And speaking of Qana, the BBC pronouncesthe photos ‘interesting’.

As I mentioned though, DFH has something he wanted to share with us: a powerful example of BBC news twisting as compared with other sources. Since when was a missile strike described as ‘crossfire’? The BBC’s flexible lexicon at work as usual? And, yes, Koffi where’s the outrage?