Tuesday, February 01, 2005

More bias from the beeb - or is it?

Another allegation of news manipulation against the msm (the BBC in this case) by the community of unbiased. Why am I not surprised? Who cares if the BBC report claiming that more civilians died in military action than were killed by terrorists was based on data given them by the Iraqi health ministry itself, as the following excerpt from the BBC shows:
On Thursday, January 27 2005, the Iraqi ministry of health released to the BBC's Panorama programme statistics stating that for the six-month period from 1 July 2004 to 1 January 2005:
  • 3,274 people in Iraq were killed and 12, 657 injured in conflict-related violence
  • 2,041 of these deaths were the result of military action, in which 8,542 people were injured
  • 1,233 deaths were the result of "terrorist" incidents
Reading those numbers, why would anyone one even think that the 2041 deaths as 'the result of military action' would include deaths caused by terrorists too, when there is a separate number for that?

Beats me!

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