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To: Lane3 who wrote (49626)	6/9/2004 2:01:23 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793600

Another good catch from Biased BBC blog: # Spare us the details BBC! On Today's BBC One O'Clock News bulletin Anna Ford reported the following: "The three Italian hostages kidnapped in Iraq have returned home to a hero's welcome. They were met by their families and friends at Rome Airport and will now be questioned by government and military officials about their two month ordeal". And that was it - cue jaw dropping in our household. What about the fourth hostage who was cruelly murdered? Isn't he worth a mention? What about the fact that the hostages were rescued by a special forces operation, rather than by, say, the benevolence of their captors? A similar item running on Sky News just now mentions all of this - yet the BBC One O'Clock news didn't. It's also covered properly on BBC News Online. This was amongst the usual One O'Clock news mush - some real news, some filler (e.g. 'Titanic treasures under hammer'), so it's not as if time or space was the reason for missing out these facts. Again we must ask, especially since the BBC is paid for by the compulsory BBC Tax, is their penchant for this sort of editorial omission conspiracy, cock-up or just lazy incompetence?