Gordon sent me this: "Here is an example of the famous BBC news "impartiality" in particular I would
like to know why they put the word terrorists in inverted commas. but
elsewhere on the BBC we can find genuine impartiality. The recent radio 4
program More or Less looks at the use and abuse of statistics. Tim Harford
quoted a tweet from an IDF spokesman "Unbelievable but true 111 Israelis
injured today." He looked into the numbers of Israelis treated by the
ambulance service on that day & there were in fact 112 but the definition of
injury is interesting: 3 shrapnel, 27 hurt while running for cover and 82 for
'shock'. I wonder if anybody was counting the 'shock' victims in
Gaza?
Harford gave the only meaningful figure up to that day (before the ceasefire) which was deaths: Israelis 5 Palestinians 162."
Harford gave the only meaningful figure up to that day (before the ceasefire) which was deaths: Israelis 5 Palestinians 162."
