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To: Ilaine who wrote (85580)	3/24/2003 9:55:55 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I think it is side-splittingly funny that people are flocking to the BBC and PBS and the Guardian for their news because commercial American news is too patriotic for their tastes. (You know who you are!) Actually, Fox and MSNBC are too jingoistic for my tastes too, CB. But the Beeb is every bit as bad and worse - in the opposite direction. So I read both, and add in the Washington Post and the Israeli press (since the Israeli press can assume an audience with military experience, their military coverage is somewhat more advanced).

To: Ilaine who wrote (85580)	3/24/2003 8:20:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Did you see this? Andrew Sullivan posted it, saying it was an email from a longtime BBC employee: Earlier in the evening I saw CNN (Pool pictures I guess) of Kurds in Ebril moving out of the town and away from the possible Iraqi incusion into the Kurdish area. An interview with one villager saying life was tough and she and her family wanted to be safe etc etc. Imagine my suprise to find the same pictures and interview turn up in a BBC report about how citizens of Bagdad were fearing the US bombing to come. Withoput explaining that the people of Ebril were escaping Saddam's violence, the commentary said, "And as in Bagdad so it is throughout Iraq" - cue Ebril material and interview. The implication being the Kurds (they weren't described as such) were afraid of US bombs. (in fact later in the oriinal piece, they welcome US intervention). Just one small example. I am wondering how I can go about shaming my former employer (30 years working in the Beeb). Any suggestions?