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BBC slammed for refusing to air Gaza appeal
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Published: 24.01.09, 12:57
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61. Bias media
Derek Roma ,   Netherlands   (01.25.09)
To the Israeli public and their friends: maybe it’s time to unlace your shoes: (Show the media what you think, that in your eyes, they are biased ). In the Palestinian arab - Israeli conflict, some of the International and national TV/Press/news organizations are, if not overtly anti-Israel, at least biased in their covering of the news. (let’s not go here into the reasons for their bias/prejudice). Subtle disinformation is all around us. The Goverment of Israel can not make this statement without getting in bigger trouble. The Israeli goverment does not want, at this moment, trouble with this organisations, NGOs, activists and international bodies. It has something else in its mind. This kind of coverage is consequently tolerated and their reports accepted as facts against which Israel can’t do a thing. The Israeli public and their friends talk about this but evidently nobody or harshly anybody react. It’s difficult to understand why the Israeli public tolerates in their own soil and without doing or saying a thing unfriendly, biased TV press crews like CNN AP and others who lie, disinform, favor the enemies of israel. These crews freely go to every place in Israel and cover the news “in their own way”, sometimes under the eyes of the israeli public, without a problem, without somebody from the public, calling their attention to this fact. These crews should rightly be allowed to freely and without problems do their job freely and without problems, Israel is a free democratic society after all. It's about the way they do their job, that we are talking about. Israeli public on the streets, where everything is happening, where the bombs and missiles are exploding and falling, has the right to and should show their fury against this fact, against this wrongdoing, and show to this TV crews and subsequently the world what their opinion is. You should say that the Israelis at least should shout at them and demand clearly, but firmly and even angrily the right of the israelis to unbiased coverage information. Lets not talk about expelling this crews, making their work difficult, violently attacking and throwing rocks at them, or to organize the orchestrated goverment demostrations against them like the Iran/Hezbollah ones. It's just about showing and expressing the real public feeling, the Israeli emotions on the ground. Just remember what throwing size 38 shoes to somebody can accomplish in the eyes of the media. It's time they get some of their own medicine. Somebody from the public (Size 45 to the media)
62. No. 51 Clickfool
NYC Girl   (01.25.09)
Surely you don't think that if the Mossad were behind it, it would have taken this long to achieve some balance in the BBC's sycophantic bias in favor of the Palestinians.
63. BBC!
zznhl   (01.25.09)
BBC PLACATING iSRAEL?...Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah...sorry, that made me laugh
64. aid
Ilana   (01.25.09)
Aid goes to Hamas. They will use it to rebuild their own enormous fancy villas. The general population will remail poor. Why should things suddenly change?? BBC is correct.
65. LMAO "reputation for impartiality"?
Zvi   (01.25.09)
The BBC is blatantly and extremely anti-Israel. All they proved by this is that they don't give a pig's ass about the welfare of the Palestinians. This proves that the BBC's slanted coverage is thus unrelated to the welfare of Palestinians; it's simply about hurting Israel.
66. BBC damages IL
(01.25.09)
The BBC and other major media outlets applies double standards to IL and the Arab countries (and Hamas). If the media outlets would threat the Arabs the same as as IL, their reporters wold be KILLed by these countries. The BBC, CNN, etc. abuse IL openess, regularly disinform and lie, and down play IL's virtues.
67. IL 1st, then the EU
(01.25.09)
Media, NGOs and public: After you help destroy IL, the muslims will target you next. In fact, they already do. When Islam is established across your countries, say goodbye to the freedoms you love so much. The very same freedom you have when visiting IL, which you abuse by disinformed and biased reporting. When we IL is destroyed it will be too late for you either! The smae on you.
68. Gaza residents == HAMAS
(01.25.09)
The Gaza residents voted Hamas in with an overwheleming majority. If HAMAS was a tiny terror org, the Gaza residents should have gotten rid of it. Or, at the least speak up. But, there is little sign for that (according the media). The vast majority of Gazans support HAMAS. To this extent, the Gaza residents bear responsibility to their own situation.
69. To #42
leo ,   USA   (01.25.09)
I checked this page and it looks like the best you can do is bookmark whole page: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3661036,00.html But you will not be able to make page advance to post #9 when page is opened. Plus I do not know what ynet's policy is. Page above may expire at some point. You best option would be to ask author's permission to copy/paste his message elsewhere under your control (with proper credentials of cause). Or alternatively author might have a web page you could bookmark instead.
70. Please write in if you see
Israel   (01.25.09)
Neil Turner's excellent comments(not his first, by any means) in any of today's Sunday UK papers. Thanks. I read them in blogspot. Well done.
71. #9 Neil, you're the man of the day!
MR   (01.25.09)
72. Please freely distribute
Neil Turner ,   Watford, UK   (01.25.09)
To any out there, please feel free to use #9 as you see fit My only goal is to support Israel May the Lord bless you and keep you
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