bararallu
02-12-2009, 04:04 PM
Dishonest Reporting 'Award' 2008 (http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/Dishonest_Reporting_Award_2008.asp)
Biggest Range of Problems: BBC
Readers vented a shockingly wide array of problems.
Some complaints focused on coverage glorifying George Habash, a video equating Rafik Hariri and Imad Mughniyeh as "great national leaders" (the Beeb apologized), a revisionist look at Israel's 60th birthday, a so-called eyewitness report that instead raised eyebrows, the Jerusalem bulldozer rampage (another apology), even an entertainment piece about Paul McCartney which somehow squeezed this sentence in:
Israel says the barrier, the route of which was declared illegal by the international court in the Hague in 2004, is for its security, but the Palestinians say it is a device to grab land.
Other readers, however, touched on deeper flaws: rehashing old news, Trevor Asserson's special report (pdf format) detailing problems with BBC Arabic, the Beeb's continuing cover-up of the Balen report, habitually choosing fringe Jews to "represent Israel," a BBC charity giving money to an organization that funded propaganda for the 7/7 bombers (Hanif Malik just filed a libel suit), and last -- but not least -- an utterly incomprehensible complaints system. Enough said.
Biggest Range of Problems: BBC
Readers vented a shockingly wide array of problems.
Some complaints focused on coverage glorifying George Habash, a video equating Rafik Hariri and Imad Mughniyeh as "great national leaders" (the Beeb apologized), a revisionist look at Israel's 60th birthday, a so-called eyewitness report that instead raised eyebrows, the Jerusalem bulldozer rampage (another apology), even an entertainment piece about Paul McCartney which somehow squeezed this sentence in:
Israel says the barrier, the route of which was declared illegal by the international court in the Hague in 2004, is for its security, but the Palestinians say it is a device to grab land.
Other readers, however, touched on deeper flaws: rehashing old news, Trevor Asserson's special report (pdf format) detailing problems with BBC Arabic, the Beeb's continuing cover-up of the Balen report, habitually choosing fringe Jews to "represent Israel," a BBC charity giving money to an organization that funded propaganda for the 7/7 bombers (Hanif Malik just filed a libel suit), and last -- but not least -- an utterly incomprehensible complaints system. Enough said.