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To: Lou Weed who wrote (90928)	4/7/2003 1:15:25 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"....it's ugly stuff but it needs to be shown. We're so lucky here that all our wars are fought on other people's soil.....When you see up close what happens when a bomb explodes , believe me it's a whole different feeling than watching it on a small box in your living room. " Wrong again. I know exactly what it is like to be bombed, having stood directly in front of the WTC when the second plane hit. 3000 souls dead in a heartbeat. In iraq its been a bloody two week war so far but i suspect civilian casualties are well under that number. I do agree that the horrors of war must be shown. The road to pacifism must be continued as long as we dont get there too fast(before the really bad guys are dead). mike

To: Lou Weed who wrote (90928)	4/7/2003 4:35:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The BBC, I feel try to show the enormity and the brutal human side to these situations and for that I applaud them In part they are. The part where they try to show civilian suffering is not the part I'm complaining about (at least they don't go in for "eager baby killers strike again" as Al Jazeera does, though they do give a lot of air to patently ridiculous UN predictions of calamity.) The part I'm complaining about is where they simply falsify their war coverage, making it sound as if the coalition forces are losing when they are clearly winning big, and the part where they treat British or US spokesmen with MORE skepticism than the Iraqi information minister, whose ridiculous lies are often presented without any comment! e.g. "Arab world is rallying to Iraq" (they pull this stuff all the time on their Mideast coverage btw. Israeli spokesmen get 30 seconds of airtime, followed by skeptical, not to say disdainful, questioning, while Saeb Erekat gets to spew for 5 minutes uninterrupted). I say again: I don't like Fox's jingoistic coverage. But the BBC is even worse, in the opposite direction. By the way Nadine, I don't know if you've been to the UK at all but using an article from The Sun as validity for anything is not recommended. The majority of their readers buy it for page 3....if you know what I mean! Just a small tip :-) Yes, yes, I know what the Sun is. I also know who the BBC veteran correspondant is, whose memo they leaked. I didn't notice the correspondant or the BBC denying the memo.