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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: JohnM who wrote (3129)7/3/2003 8:30:37 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793843
 
I've seen one Michael Moore movie, read snatches of the books, and reviews of the other movies. Enough to conclude that he and Ann Coulter on mirror-image paths at each end of the political spectrum.

On another topic, Andrew Sullivan found this interesting report which compares BBC reporting of coalition forces in Iraq to BBC reporting of the Israeli/Pal conflict.

bbcwatch.com

It documents at some length the usual tricks of slanted reporting. For instance, when you are rooting for one side in a war (and despite all the complaints about BBC coverage of Iraq, they were not actually rooting for the Iraqis), violence that comes from the favored side tends to happen of itself - "a bomb exploded today" - and the casualties are reported without emphasis - "witnesses said that six people were killed and ten more injured".

But when the unfavored side commits violence, the bastards are killing people, "the Israelis killed six Palestinians today", and the dead have touching human color about them, "the dead included a six-year old boy who had been playing on his front steps" and the spark that touched off the violence is buried, that is, if it lends support to the unfavored side "the Israelis claimed that they were hunting for the terrorists who had killed three Israeli drivers in the previous few days"

I'm loosely quoting these examples from memory but they are extremely typical. Real examples are quoted by the score in the linked report.
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