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How To Go To Heaven: www.jesus-is-savior.com www.lewrockwell.com The BBC And Iraq: Myth and Reality by John Pilger December 5, 2003 In his latest column, John Pilger highlight’s the recent criticism of American television reporting of Iraq by BBC Director-General Greg Dyke. The US networks' coverage of the invasion, said Dyke, was "cheerleading for government." But what of the BBC's own coverage of Iraq? What are the facts behind the BBC's relentless myth-making about its objectivity and impartiality? Are these merely "principles to be suspended whenever the established order is threatened"? Greg Dyke, the BBC's director general, has attacked American television reporting of Iraq. "For any news organisation to act as a cheerleader for government is to undermine your credibility," he said. "They should be... balancing their coverage, not banging the drum for one side or the other." He said research showed that, of 840 experts interviewed on American news programmes during the invasion of Iraq, only four opposed the war. "If that were true in Britain, the BBC would have failed in its duty." Did Dyke say all this with a straight face? Let's look at what research shows about the BBC's reporting of Iraq. Media Tenor, the non-partisan, Bonn-based media research organisation, has examined the Iraq war reporting of some of the world's leading broadcasters, including the US networks and the BBC. It concentrated on the coverage of opposition to the war. The second-worst case of ...

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