OPEN THREAD

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1. deegee says:

   July 11, 2012 at 10:53 am

   Freed Palestinian footballer Sarsak returns to Gaza
   This is the BBC take. Israel accused Mr Sarsak of involvement with the militant group Islamic Jihad, which Mr Sarsak has always denied.

   This is AP’s take. Mahmoud Sarsak goes free Israel accused Sarsak of being active in the violent Islamic Jihad group, a charge he denied while in custody.

   However, senior Islamic Jihad officials were present during a welcoming ceremony for him in Gaza City on Tuesday, and one of the group’s leaders, Nafez Azzam, praised the soccer player as “one of our noble members.”

   Later Tuesday, as Sarsak approached his family home in the Rafah refugee camp, dozens of Islamic Jihad gunmen fired in the air from SUVs and motorcycles. Women waved black Islamic Jihad banners from nearby homes and streets were decorated with huge photos of the player.

   Note the Mister Sarsak in the BBC’s paragraph and the choice of militant rather than APO’s violent. Style Guide?

   Now who would you believe?

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2. uncle bup says:

   July 11, 2012 at 11:03 am

   It’s not worth reporting on the partiality of his questions, but Radio 5 Hopeless’s ‘anchor’, Phil ‘New University’ Williams, having finished interviewing a former Secretary of State then regaled listeners with a *hilarious* tale of how when he was a waiter in a restaurant he put a ‘bogie’ on an ice cream destined for an obnoxious customer. Greeted of course by corpsing and doubtless a tsunami of tweeting by his fellow-chuckleheads.

   Between the ice cream and his ‘show’, it’d be the ice-cream for me every time.

   And we pay for this cack.

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