Lebanon - BBC: "Working for the enemy"

Hey! That's my line!

Tom Gross, writing in the National Review Online, takes the BBC to the woodshed for a well deserved spanking. Something I've been doing for years. But the miscreant of the media just won't learn.

Large sections of the international media are not only misreporting the current conflict in Lebanon. They are also actively fanning the flames of unrest.

The BBC World Service has a strong claim to be the number-one villain. It has come to sound like a virtual propaganda tool for Hezbollah. And as it desperately attempts to prove that Israel is guilty of committing “ war crimes” and “ crimes against humanity,” it has introduced a new charge — one which I have heard several times on air in recent days.

CNN is just as bad.

CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson admitted that his anti-Israel report from Beirut on July 18 about civilian casualties in Lebanon was stage-managed from start to finish by Hezbollah. He revealed that his story was heavily influenced by Hezbollah’s “ press officer” and that Hezbollah have “ very, very sophisticated and slick media operations.”

When pressed a few days later about his reporting on the CNN program Reliable Sources, Robertson acknowledged that Hezbollah militants had instructed the CNN camera team where and what to film. Hezbollah “ had control of the situation,” Robertson said. “ They designated the places that we went to, and we certainly didn’t have time to go into the houses or lift up the rubble to see what was underneath.”

Robertson added that Hezbollah has “ very, very good control over its areas in the south of Beirut. They deny journalists access into those areas. You don’t get in there without their permission. We didn’t have enough time to see if perhaps there was somebody there who was, you know, a taxi driver by day, and a Hezbollah fighter by night.”

Bear this in mind whenever you read anything about Qana. In fact, keep in mind concerning all reporting from Lebanon not under Israeli control.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE

Even the Canadians picked up the story.
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