The BBC has made it into Gaza

[FireGarden]

Without an Israeli escort, this time:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7834419.stm

The BBC's Christian Fraser is the first British journalist to enter Gaza independently since the Israeli offensive began. Israel is continuing to deny foreign journalists unsupervised access to the Strip. He sent this report from Rafah, southern Gaza, which he entered from Egypt.

 

[Oliver]

Israel won't be amused by the BBC-Reporter and his coverage, so I hope he will manage to make it out of Gaza as well.

 

[jsiv]

I'm sure they want be so unamused that they shoot him before he can leave, if that's what you mean.

 

[Oliver]

I'm sure they want be so unamused that they shoot him before he can leave, if that's what you mean.

Wouldn't be the first time, if that's what you wanted to hear.

 

[Beerina]

I dunno. Is the reporter gonna do yellow journalism, or is he gonna show it all, including launching **** from schools and so on?

 

[Oliver]

I dunno. Is the reporter gonna do yellow journalism, or is he gonna show it all, including launching **** from schools and so on?

Being an unimpressed BBC-Reporter, and in contrast to a US-MSN-Reporter who don't mind anyway, I would think so.

 

[geni]

I dunno. Is the reporter gonna do yellow journalism, or is he gonna show it all, including launching **** from schools and so on?

Israel which har rather a lot of planes watching the place right now can't get worthwhile vids of that. One reporter on the ground? not going to happen.

 

[Skeptic]

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[Oliver]

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Evidence?

 

[Travis]

Being an unimpressed BBC-Reporter, and in contrast to a US-MSN-Reporter who don't mind anyway, I would think so.

You forget that a Journalists job is to cherry pick information and report it in a way that supports their ideologies.

Or are you one of those people who think journalists actually report the "truth?"

 

[Fiona]

Easy cynicism, Travis, and of course there is some truth in it since news media are businesses and often have an agenda. But reporting in a war zone is not easy and it is not safe: with the best will in the world there are constraints on what you can do. I thought this was interesting from Reuters

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/16/pressandpublishing

http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2009/01/15/reporting-in-gaza-striving-for-fairness/

 

[Oliver]

You forget that a Journalists job is to cherry pick information and report it in a way that supports their ideologies.

Or are you one of those people who think journalists actually report the "truth?"

This is going to be interesting: What are the BBC's and their reporters "ideologies"?
And to what extend does it influence the way they report about Israel and Gaza?

And funny enough: It's Israel denying foreign Reporters access to Gaza, which would make it impossible for the reporters to "cherrypick truths". So the only intention behind Israel's policy is to "better keep the lights turned off".

 

[Travis]

Easy people. I was joking. I mean there are some bad, biased Journalists but there are also bad doctors.

 

[WildCat]

Has the IDF tracked down and killed the BBC reporter yet?

 

[geni]

Has the IDF tracked down and killed the BBC reporter yet?

I think it can be assumed they are not that stupid.

 

[WildCat]

I think it can be assumed they are not that stupid.

Tell that to Oliver.

 

[Meadmaker]

I dunno. Is the reporter gonna do yellow journalism, or is he gonna show it all, including launching **** from schools and so on?

Did you watch the report? He already did. (Quoting from memory) "This is why there are so many civilan casualties. This was a surgical strike against miltants firing from this corner, but the apartment across the street was damagad, and on the other corner, a playground."

Seems pretty fair to me.