[icernet] BBC biased in war coverage

[Arul Selvan]

  "The BBC was attacked by both sides over the Iraq war. It was the only 
news organisation apart from the Sun that was targeted by anti-war 
demonstrators, and senior managers apologised for the use of biased 
terms such as 'liberate' in their coverage. Meanwhile, ministers 
publicly criticised the BBC's alleged bias towards Baghdad," David 
Miller reports for the Guardian. "The BBC argued that criticism from all 
sides showed it must be getting something right. The empirical evidence, 
however, suggests a pro-war orientation. ... The BBC thus turned a blind 
eye to divisions in the [UK]. A study of coverage in five countries for 
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung shows that the BBC featured the 
lowest level of dissent of all. Its 2% total was even lower than the 7% 
found on the US channel ABC."

Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/story/0,3604,940770,00.html