08 March 2007

Bumbling British Coverage

So a few days ago, I posted a story about Israel using Palestinians as human shields, in violation of their own laws. Despite that there was a video which clearly showed Israel using a Palestinian civilian as a human shield, the only serious news organization that picked it up was Al-Jazeera.

Well, a few days passed an the BBC is now reporting the story? Because the Israeli NGO B'tselem did a press release. Fascinatingly, no mention of the AP video is made in the entire BBC article. For the millions of people who only read the BBC, three random Palestinians are making accusations against the Israeli army without any proof. This despite the fact that the B'tselem press release clearly mentions the video. This is just plain sloppy reporting.

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