An illustration of why reporting from troubled areas is biased

[Loren Pechtel]

Burkina Faso suspends BBC and Voice of America after they covered a report on mass killings

Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio stations for their coverage of a report by Human Rights Watch on a mass killing of civilians carried out by the country’s armed forces.

apnews.com

BBC and VOA got kicked out for telling the truth. It's not going to be a big deal to them to not be able to report from Burkina Faso so there was no strong incentive to lie. But the same thing would happen in any hotspot--and an inability to report from a location making the news would be important to them.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

STAY TUNED FOR NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE

WATER IS WET.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

MEMRI. This is a site that translates assorted articles from Middle East sources into English
and other languages. It can give you some stories that won't show up in American news
sites or cable.

MEMRI

MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Persian, Urdu-Pashtu, Turkish, Chinese, and Russian media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in...

www.memri.org

 

[Loren Pechtel]

MEMRI. This is a site that translates assorted articles from Middle East sources into English
and other languages. It can give you some stories that won't show up in American news
sites or cable.

MEMRI

MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Persian, Urdu-Pashtu, Turkish, Chinese, and Russian media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in...

www.memri.org

MEMRI shows up the MTGs of the Muslim world. That's not really news.

 

[barbos]

BBC and VOA got kicked out for telling the truth.

LOL, that's a new one.