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Jeff Jarvis looks at the chances of a new, publicly funded media organisation being created in the US, how Michael Jackson's death was broken, and why newspapers should sue Google
Is the financial crisis and the internet revolution the perfect opportunity to create a completely new media organisation? A US version of the BBC. It's the brainchild of David Fanning, executive producer of Frontline on PBS.
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AMW monitored BBC Online news articles about violence between Israelis and Palestinians over four months (February-May 2009). This aspect was chosen because it is one of the most reported in a conflict that is almost always in the news, and thus shapes public attitudes towards the peoples involved.
AMW analysed the prominence of each side's viewpoint and version of events by monitoring how many words were devoted to quoting and paraphrasing Israeli and Palestinian sources, and in what order they were reported. AMW also analysed the prevalence with which each side were portrayed as instigating or responding to violence.
While every BBC article included Israeli sources, 35% had no Palestinian sources. Some of those articles omitted Palestinian statements and viewpoints that were available in other respected news outlets, such as reactions to Israeli violence or explaining why Palestinian violence took place. Of the 65% of articles containing Palestinian sources, 82% devoted more words to Israeli sources. This, as the study says, is "a woeful imbalance"
Originally posted by pazcat
reply to post by Gun Totin Gerbil
Wow you dont know to much about the BBC obviously.
Its a well known fact they appear to have an anti israeli bias. It even made its way into wiki.
i think you have larger issues than the BBC
en.wikipedia.org...
home.comcast.net...
Originally posted by audas
Originally posted by pazcat
reply to post by Gun Totin Gerbil
Wow you dont know to much about the BBC obviously.
Its a well known fact they appear to have an anti israeli bias. It even made its way into wiki.
i think you have larger issues than the BBC
en.wikipedia.org...
home.comcast.net...
And yet they refused to even broadcast a fundraiser to raise relief funds for the decimated Palestinian population - and then blocked a documentary showing the carnage sown by the Israelis - the board is backed entirely by wealthy jews as was the number one fundraiser for the labour party - a man accused of cash for honours -
YEAH RIGHT !! What a laugh....
A nationwide appeal for money to help the Gaza relief effort has been denied free television airtime because the BBC fears that it would damage confidence in the corporation’s impartiality.
A 46-year-old agreement with overseas aid charities guarantees them a two-minute prime-time slot to broadcast appeals. But the BBC said that the risk of compromising confidence in its fairness, coupled with “question marks” about aid getting through, had led to its decision not to go ahead with this one.