Whilst on the subject of media, it frequently annoys me how the media "show" moves from spot to spot and then almost completely ignores and forgets about the places they've just been to or other places.

Recently, with events in the Middle East & Africa, has been a perfect example of how the media report and often over-report from one place with almost total disregard to others. I can only assume because they've got themselves setup there so they'll use the situation as much as they can.

For instance we had the world's media in Libya during the conflict. Then Gaddafi was killed, then virtually nothing for years.
The same for Iraq, media crawling the place during the "insurgency" then nothing, despite plenty of Iraqis still dying.
The same is true for Syria, Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Iran, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia and I'm sure there are others too.

When this conflict first started, Anonymous organised a demonstration in London. Over 10,000 people turned up. At the exact same moment that the demonstration reached Downing Street, do you know what the BBC did? Interview Tony Blair with his pro Israel views! You couldn't make it up! The next Anonymous demonstration attracted over 100,000 people but again, not one mention on the BBC yet in the past, the BBC has reported on the likes of fox hunting demos attracting around 5.000 people. Why is that?

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In the lazy, cut-price age of global communications (but at a cost on an accountants spreadsheet) the news media are spoon-fed "news" stories by whoever is the most powerful interested party, as soon as that party's goal has been achieved then the news feed stops and everyone moves on.

Which is precisely what makes the newspapers bleating about "investigative journalism being damaged by Leveson" so laughable, they wouldn't know what "investigative journalism" meant until they looked it up in a Thesaurus or happened to trip up upon some Pilger documentaries from the 1970s on Youtube.

John Waite on Radio 4's Face The Facts is pretty good too.

But true to form, the BBC are axing the prgramme in 2015 due to budget cuts

You mean they offered a balanced view, as per the BBC Charter? Coverage of a pro-Gaza protest and then a pro-Israeli stance? You couldn't make it up. Shocking. I assume in your mind reaching Downing Street and cutting to Blair was symbolic and planned and probably clear evidence of a Zionist plot?

No mention of Gaza protests?
rlThousands march through London over Gaza crisisrl
rlGaza conflict
rlHundreds join Belfast Gaza protestrl
rlAnti-Israeli protest on the streets of Edinburghrl
rlProtesters join rally for Gazarl
rlPolicing of violence at Cardiff Gaza protest 'poor'rl

They're even reporting on your lot protesting on their reporting.
rlManchester protesters march against BBC coverage and Gaza bombingsrl
rl'Bristol Friends of Gaza' protest camp outside BBCrl

I have no problem with a person taking a firm stance on this issue, even an unbalanced one such as yours. But the obsession with BBC reporting is ridiculous and slightly baffling given the BBC has a clear public duty to deliver unbiased reporting - and that includes the pro-Israel stance.

FWIW, I've seen several Israeli officials being grilled pretty harshly by BBC reporters, and I'm seeing almost blanket coverage of the carnage in Gaza. I'm not sure what about this is unacceptable.

Daily Mail reporting that the ceasefire lasted 72 minutes when in fact Israel broke it at 8.05 am..........

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Quote: Cronus " I have no problem with a person taking a firm stance on this issue, even an unbalanced one such as yours. But the obsession with BBC reporting is ridiculous and slightly baffling given the BBC has a clear public duty to deliver unbiased reporting - and that includes the pro-Israel stance. .'" Really? www.stopwar.org.uk/news/how-bbc- ... 9tnKeNdX0c

Quote: Cronus " I have no problem with a person taking a firm stance on this issue, even an unbalanced one such as yours. But the obsession with BBC reporting is ridiculous and slightly baffling given the BBC has a clear public duty to deliver unbiased reporting - and that includes the pro-Israel stance. .'" Really? www.stopwar.org.uk/news/how-bbc- ... 9tnKeNdX0c

Until Kay Burley appears in Gaza, earnestly asking anyone daft enough to catch her eye, "what's it been like." I don't think we can take this latest round of handbags seriously.

Live on Sky, a couple of hours into the cease fire Hamas sent a group of terrorists through a tunnel into Israel, and one exploded a suicide vest near some IDF soldiers. the rest grabbed one injured soldier and disappeared back through the tunnel into Gaza.

Time for the Israeli's to level this cesspit, once and for all.

Where is the uproar over the Ukrainians mercilessly shelling civilian areas in Eastern Ukraine? Answer - it has been warped by our Press and politicians into ant-Russian propaganda. At some point Putin will have to hit back at the Ukrainian government. Then we have a very dangerous situation given the way the US and others are sabre rattling.

More anti Israel propaganda on the BBC....

I wish they would stick to dancing and crap motor racing

What, did they mention that the IDF have shelled yet another school that was being used by refugees?

You'd struggle to find anti-Israel propaganda on even al Jazeera these days, let alone the BBC.

Showing the results of the Israeli attacks on civilians, is far, very far, from propaganda

It is propaganda though if they fail to mention why the site was bombed. If it was because Hamas were using it, as they are seemingly free to do, even in the UN controlled schools, then the blame lies with both of them.