Wednesday, February 10, 2010
BBC news? Service?
Marlin sent me this (I cite with his permission): "The intrepid BBC at your service: Paragraph 2 - Hariri "told the BBC" about Israeli planes, because multiple UN reports about the violations aren't credible enough to be accepted as fact and the thousands of people who see and hear the daily violations aren't credible either. The BBC "reporter" obviously lives in Toronto or somewhere. Perhaps if pro-western bloggers from south Lebanon had mentioned the overflights, they would have been considered "real." Paragraph 3: "alleged" threats by Israel against Lebanon and Syria. It could have happened, but we'll have wait for a special tribunal to judge whether the threats were actually made. Later down in the article, Syria and Israel are made equal because they issue "aggressive accusations," which are of course different than threats."