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CNN adopts Israeli perspective. Latest example was rereading slaying of Palestinian teens (the smugglers who was playing football).

This is classic example of how the US media adopts the official version of the Israeli Occupation Forces, with almost no regard to any other view point: (1) A blaring headline stating the Israeli point of view, and by contrast the much smaller sub-headline for an alternate point of view; (2) the total absence in the main story of a quote from the Palestinian side. The official Israeli side gets the long quotes; (3) No references to other witnesses: human rights groups, relief groups, and other potential witnesses.

On the other hand, the BBC has come under fire for cutting the acceptance speech of a Bafta winner who last night criticised the media’s coverage of the threat posed to Britain by terrorists.

Adam Curtis, who won the factual series award for BBC2’s The Power of Nightmares, used his speech to question newspaper and broadcast reports of last week’s ricin trial, which he said had sensationalised the threat of a poison terror attack.

This is part of what he said:

“Reporting of the whole terrorist threat has either become exaggerated, distorted or in some cases a complete fabrication and they are beginning to realise this. They know they have to sort it out. It has touched a nerve and the fact they cut it shows that.”

Mr Curtis, a senior producer in the BBC’s news and current affairs department, said reports of an “al-Qaida plot to poison Britain” that could have consequences “equal or greater to 9/11″ were “massively exaggerated or a complete fantasy”.