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To: Lane3 who wrote (27398)	2/1/2004 3:25:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793688

Perhaps so. I don't have enough exposure to the BBC to have an opinion. But if is is so, you sure can't tell it from this example, IMO. I listen to the Boston NPR station every day, which plays hours of BBC news and other programs. I do have enough exposure to assert that this is NOT a case of generally deferring to religious beliefs, because Christianity and Judaism do NOT get the same treatment. If this were an isolated incident, you might let it go, you might say that the reporter accidently gave the impression that BBC lent its authority to the Koranic account. What really renders it jarring is the comparison to the BBC's general treatment of Christianity and Judaism. For instance, the BBC talks about towns in Israel every day, but I have never heard them cite the Biblical background for any one of them, even in a long story, even where they discuss history. Is this because citing the Biblical background would treat the Bible as history, and remind people that the Jews were there before the Arabs? Your guess is as good as mine. But I've been listening for years, and I know they never do it.