I'm glad you mentioned Al Jazeera. It staggered me that I had to to watch

a documentary about the media centre in Iraq, to watch footage of, and the killing of a journalist on top of the media centre, by a US plane.

Of which the programme implied (and probably rightly) that the US didn't like them reporting anything they were doing

It's a shame that didn't make national news, even though major news agencies all broadcasted from that media centre (BBC included)

I already had my cynical doubts about the bbc well before this, ironically from the opinion of a friend who's lived in various South American and Central American places

It's a pretty big myth that the BBC are this beacon of fair neutrality. They're a media company with the luxury of a massive budget. For them to plead that they don't have a lot to spend on programmes like they do, sparks of Neil Doncaster every time

Posted By: pants, Nov 13, 01:28:48