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… that is your bias and not the BBC’s.
Pete | 12.04.07 – 11:59 pm
Wrong answer “Pete”!
At 15:56 +0100 2006/04/21, NewsOnline wrote:
Dear Mr Biodegradable,
Thank you for your email.
Over recent years, thousands of rockets have been fired by Palestinian militants into Israel. The vast majority of these have not caused death, injury or damage.
There have been a number of deaths and injuries. We have reported all the deaths caused by Palestinian rocket fire. We have also published a wide range of correspondent features on the Israeli communities that are targeted by these rocket attacks.
Best regards,
BBC News website
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I have previously complained about your use of the phrase ‘The rockets rarely cause significant damage or casualties.’ and similar when reporting on terrorist attacks aimed at Israeli civilians. I attach my last complaint below.
While my previous complaint apparently did lead to the report in question being modified the BBC continues to use this misleading phrase in today’s report ‘Israel ‘could occupy Gaza again”, Last Updated: Friday, 21 April 2006, 11:52 GMT 12:52 UK
My previous comment:
Re: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4891056.stm
My comments:
Your reporting of an Israeli air strike on a group of terrorists who had fired a missile into Israel ends with the following ‘bottom line’:
‘Palestinians often fire crude rockets into Israeli territory but these rarely cause any casualties.’
It would seem that you wish to minimise the effects of such terror attacks so as to portray any action taken by Israel in legtimate self defence as an unprovoked, or at least unneccesary attack on ‘Palestinians’.
Please see. http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/-Homemade-_Rockets$.asp
How do the above facts square with the BBC’s analysis that ‘these rarely cause any casualties.’?
I look forward to your response.
http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/-Homemade-_Rockets$.asp
A Few Deadly Qassam Attacks:
June 28, 2004 The first fatal Qassam rocket attack occurred in Sderot. A man and a 4 year old boy were killed, and 7 others were wounded (including the boy’s mother). Hamas claimed responsibility.
September 29, 2004 Two toddlers were killed by a Qassam rocket fired from Gaza. Hamas claimed responsibility.
January 21, 2005 A fifth Israeli died from wounds sustained during a Qassam rocket attack in Sderot.
July 14, 2005 Dana Galkovitch, a 22-year-old Israeli, was killed in a Qassam attack in the Netiv Ha’asara kibbutz, just north of the Gaza Strip.
September 24, 2005 Five Israelis were injured when Palestinian terrorists launched about 30 rockets on Israeli communities from the Gaza Strip.
February 3, 2006, A Qassam rocket struck a family’s house in the western Negev village of Kibbutz Karmiya, injuring four people, including a 7-month-old baby.
March 28, 2006 A Qassam rocket killed two Israeli-Arab shepherds in Kibbutz Nachal Oz.
April 6, 2006 Nine Qassam rockets were fired at Israel. One hit a factory in Kibbutz Zikim causing a fire.
Your views about Muslims are made very clear
Pete | 12.04.07 – 11:59 pm
Who is that addressed to?
“Anonymous:
No shit…how can a picture “say” something…..it either shows it, or it does not…”
There goes 5000 years of art…
🙂
Having breakfast here in NY, I just listened to Tony Blair’s rousing speech resigning as prime minister.
And what does the BBC do right after that? They go to get the “man on the street” reaction to the speech. And where do they go? Not to a Pub, or to a park, but to a “Middle Eastern” part of London, interviewing people in a “Middle Eastern” Cafe. And, surprise, surprise, they blast Blair for countless excruciating (and predictable) minutes.
Like Blair or loathe him (and I’m in the middle), the man had just resigned from 10 years of service — perhaps one of the most important Prime Ministers in UK history. He deserved more than a disgusting, politically-correct, take-down by the BBC at that moment in time.