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  1. psycaholic

    psycaholic Registered User

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    just behind you he he
    i think the british media have been pretty even tbh and have goor reports from both sides of the fence joe's just got a bee in his bonnet cos it's is showing his beloved in a bad light (quite rightly aswell imo)
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    In all fairness there is going to be bias in any media coverage in any country to do with anything news based. We've got in in our own country between papers and the political views etc, not just to do with world events and our postion.



    its sadly how life goes, people want us to belive certain things, however its alot harder to do nowadays with the internet etc. Whereas back in the world wars propaganda and other biases were easier to create as there were few other means of discovering about "the other side"
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  4. Yosef Ha'Kohain

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    I'd say that story was critical of Israel and theres also about 5 other stories on the middle east page that are critical of Israel (I can't find one critical of Hizbullah or Hamas)
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    I just don't see that, it seems like they are telling us what happened, is some of it lies or half truths? :confused:
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    Inflated Lebanese death tolls (notice the "Lebanon says"), 2 lines commited to Hizbullah atacks - about 150 lines devoted to Israel attacks.
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    The lines are devoted to the effect of the attacks, not the attacks themselves.

    If Israel is doing 75 times more damage is this not a fair distribution of the page space?
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    This may well be a fair point. What do you understand to be the actual death toll at the moment in Lebanon?
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    Reuters news agency put it around the 700 mark, AFP news agency is around the 550 mark, Israel's was around the 500 mark.

    Non of these account for how many of the dead were Hizbullah fighters (Except Israel) which is strange when all occidental news agencies report how many Israeli troops - Hizbullah kill.

    Buit this makes sense when we consider that Hizbullah are noble warriors while the IDF are baby killers :rolleyes:

    Israel claim that 300+ militants have been killed (of a 2,500 strong force).
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    2 out of 150 lines is not 25%, 0 out of 6 stories is not 25%.
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    I said 75 times, not 75%. :)

    It's a hard thing to quantify tha actual 'damage' because it needs to include deaths, building, roads, morale, resources etc etc.

    How many more times 'damange' do you feel Israel have done than Hezbullah, if you had to put a guess on it based on the news you have seen?
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    about 10 times... they kill one Israeli we kill 10 Lebanese, they take out 1 building we take out 10...
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    maybe israel are been shown in a bad light because they are the ones in the wrong for using excessive force?




    *edited as id just woke up and that made no sense
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    just behind you he he

    fair point TBH
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    So it should be fair for the BBC to give 10 times the coverage to the 'damage' to Lebanon?

    I'm sure they are doing better than that?
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    how do you figure that one out?

    Hizbullah fire rockets form buildings endangering the lives of the civilians within them.

    Israel respond in the only way they can (if they are to put an end to the attacks).

    Civilians are killed along with militants.

    The militants are just as guilty as the IDF... Israel didn't choose to bomb the buildings - they were forced to.

    The story is not as black and white as you paint.
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    in the wrong?

    How else do you respond to an attack on your country?
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    I didn't paint any picture, I wasn't talking about right and wrong. Unless I've missed the point we are talking about media coverage, not my opinions on who is in the right?

    You said that Israel are killing 10 times as many people, I said that I think that the BBC are not giving 10 times the coverage to the damage in Lebanon than they are to the damage in Israel.

    Does that not make them biased towards Israel if anything?

    I'm not trying to disagree with you, just trying to give a balanced reply to your thread topic. :up:
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    The media focus should lie on Lebanon, however, when the media is critical of Israel, in that same breath, it should also be critical of Hizbullah... There would be no destruction without Hizbullah, there would be no civilian causalities without Hizbullah, there would be no war without Hizbullah.

    This is not reflected in the media... Instead we are told that Israels response is disproportionate... they fail to mention the missiles being fired form civilian structures, they fail to report the emails sent from UN observation posts stating that Hibzullah was drawing Israeli fire upon the building, they fail to mention the political under tones to the crisis... they fail to mention a lot.

    This isn’t a case of Israel bombing 10 buildings, this is a case of Israel bombing 10 buildings that Hizbullah have used to launch attacks on Israel… Therefore the media coverage should not be 10:1 – it should be equal.
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    Erm, how many 'attacks' have been launched from Beirut so far again?

    And how many buildings have been destroyed?

    I think that would give us a inifinity to 1 ratio of news coverage against Israel. ;)

    I know what you mean btw. :)

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