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To: Lou Weed who wrote (90722)	4/6/2003 7:41:41 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<<<.do you really think because of 911 that we now have the market cornered on expertise in terrorism and what it's like to experience it?!?!? The British have been experiencing terrorist acts on their mainland since the early seventies from the IRA! Fortunately no single event as large as 911 has happened but to suggest that the British "have not yet fully awakened from a deep slumber" is simply ludicrous! >>> I was discussing the journalists and reporters, not the British public who seem to be coming around to the support of Mr Blair. It is nearly impossible to to write a clearly understood post without used plenty of words. Even FOX implied that the discovered morgue was something other than it is now deemed to be. And how about that "bogged down" discussion. and the "running low on food rations" , both written in a manner that implied our war plans were defective when nobody is supposed to know what they are. Sig

To: Lou Weed who wrote (90722)	4/6/2003 11:37:18 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<the official news channel of Great Britain wants the British to lose in Iraq?>> Statements like this reflect very poorly on the writer (and I realize it was a quote from another poster). Yes, it was from me. The question of tone in the BBC's coverage reminds me of the local NPR's coverage of sports. NPR doesn't devote much time to sports coverage, but they do give the scores regularly. Without making a fuss of it, by words and tone they make it clear that they are happier when the local teams are winning than when they are losing. And why not? Just so, the BBC's coverage makes it clear that they are rooting for a really stinging disaster, if not an outright calamity. Every setback is lovingly examined, while larger successes are reported perfunctorily. I hope you will grant that I have the discernment to tell the difference between "objectivity" and "hoping the war will be the disaster they predicted". Even if not, I am hardly alone in my observations on the BBC. After all, it was a the BBC's own defense correspondant who wrote that he was "gobsmacked" by the negative slant in the BBC's war coverage: Message 18759477