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Thursday, April 22, 2004

The BBC on Terrorism

Tim Blair (Australian blogger)

...There's a curious turn of phrase in this BBC piece on [Steven] Spielberg's plan to make a film about the '72 Olympic assassinations. It seems the Israeli athletes were kidnapped by activists, not terrorists; and their deaths, while chronologically subsequent to the abduction, were of unspecified causes":

The Israelis died after being taken hostage by Palestinian activists at the 1972 summer games in Munich.
...Perhaps the BBC needs to get some new instructors at its impartiality seminars:

BBC reporters are receiving training in impartial journalism following criticisms made by the Hutton Report into the death of Dr David Kelly.

The 'impartiality seminars' aim to encourage reporters and producers at BBC News to think outside of the 'left-leaning liberal' mentality traditionally associated with the corporation.
This type of knee-jerk anti-Israeli attitude is very common among media elites in Europe.

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