And no discussion of media prostitution could be complete without discussing the Baghdad's Bum-boys and Commissars BBC. Tom Gross writes a withering indictment of their Mideast coverage:
Throughout the world the BBC enjoys exceptional influence. An article last month in the liberal Israeli daily Haaretz, for example, quotes a leading Lithuanian campaigner against anti-Semitism as saying that inflammatory and biased international BBC news coverage against Israel was helping to revive anti-Semitism in Lithuania against those few Jews remaining who were not murdered in the Holocaust.
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.
Go read the whole thing. It's long but very clear and to the point.
It's a scandal. There was something on LGF too.
Posted by: Michael Cosyns | June 22, 2004 at 11:31 PM
It's a scandal. There was something on LGF too.
Posted by: Michael Cosyns | June 22, 2004 at 11:31 PM