Friday, June 18, 2004

BBC Bias

Tom Gross has a very illuminating column on NRO. It is stunning to see the blatant anti-American and anti-Israel propaganda that gets passed off as news by BBC. This "news service" reaches more people world-wide than pretty much any other news service.
The English-language version of the BBC seems to be just the tip of the iceberg. My friend Kamran al-Karadaghi, an urbane, moderate, and thoughtful Iraqi, who was for a decade the political editor of the Arabic-language newspaper al-Hayat in London, and who until last week served as head of Radio Free Iraq, tells me that the BBC Arabic-language service is not just far worse than the English-language BBC. It is "even worse," he says, than al Jazeera, in the vitriol it pours out against America and Israel.
Is it any surprise then, what the attitudes around the world are to America and Israel?

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