[Reagan is King]

Pigs are flying. The BBC is called out for their bias by their own reporter.

[MediaMole]

The BBC will recall him, claiming he is suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

[Conservababe]

Embedded reporters are becoming a fine source in defense of bias. LOL

[Paradox]

“I was gobsmacked to hear, in a set of headlines today, that the coalition was suffering ‘significant casualties’"

Man, even when they are talking sh$t, they sound cool, don't they? :)

[Mr. Mojo]

Sounds like Paul Adams' BBC bosses need some battlefield experience to clear their heads.

[agitator]

ping

[Porterville]

[merrin]

Hey, Paul, get your application in to Fox. Americans eat up that BBC accent.

[tophat9000]

Some don't like the embeded reporters.. but I do ...because they live with the troops and see the truth

[ccmay]

Isn't this cool? Embedding journalists seems to be a good idea, a throwback to the days of WWII, updated with satellite phones and E-mail.

These reporters are suffering the same terror and boredom, eating the same lousy food, crapping behind the same sand dune, as our boys on the front lines. They see the ridiculously strict rules of engagement applied in such a way that they themselves are at higher risk than they would otherwise be if we turned the dogs out. . . Most of all, they spend time with the officers and men and come to realize they are the salt of the earth, not robotic baby killers or imperialist tools.

And then one day they are surprised to feel red hot anger welling up, when some homosexual Trotskyite theater major sipping cappucino in the London studio spouts off about how much he hates America and its soldiers and the dirty little war for oil.

-ccm

[Russell Scott]

I usually watch Fox late at night, but last night turned on CNN because they had a live feed of an embedded reporter. As biased as CNN is, the reporter was like a walking, talking ad for the military. He was describing how they fought to cross the river, and raved about the professionalism of our heros attacking the enemy to secure the bridge. And CNN allowed the feed for most of the night. Embedded reporters was a great idea!

[McGavin999]

Embedding the journalists with the troops was brilliant. Some of these people are being exposed to real Americans and Brits for the first time in their lives. They will emerge from this completely changed for all time. They will have a deeper understanding of life and death, a more profound respect for those who lay their lives on the line every day, and a real appreciation for the rights these men and women fight for.

Georgie Steponallofus would have run screaming from the convoy on the first day.

I'm gaining a new respect for these fire hardened journalists. They're doing a fine job.

[Mister Baredog]

The BBC has come under attack for describing the loss of two soldiers as the “worst possible news for the armed forces”.

Gee they sound almost as bad as Al Jazeera, and the LA Times

[xm177e2]

One listener asked: “How would the BBC have reported the Battle of the Somme in World War I when 25,000 men died on the first day?”

I think we can guess. Still, the Beeb is not as bad as Reuters--Reuters used the "worst nightmare" line to describe the torching of oil wells. We've got more important things to worry about.

[CyberAnt]

Rush has been talking about this. At first, he said, he wasn't thrilled with the "embedded" troops idea. However, he has come to realize that this was probably a stroke of genius.

Rush said that what's happened is that the media has come to KNOW the men who are fighting - what kind of people they are - why they are fighting - and the media are beginning to connect with them. Rush said he noticed that the media people were referring to the unit by saying "we" did this, or "we" did that - showing that the media had become part of the unit.

We could be on the verge of seeing a huge change in the way news is reported. We could see a return to the real investigative reporters - which is a good thing for America. However, this is not good news for the dems.

[Cacique]

How about some comment from our resident BBC experts.

[Tamzee]

Told hubby today that media just might be cleaning up its act a bit after the war is over. I'm wondering what these journalists are going to say when they get back and see the entire soap opera tragedy that the liberal rags have woven their stories into.

[Always Right]

BBC reports huge casualities as two men die in car accident near Britan. Recommend that all people stop driving....

[Timesink]

bump

[rimmont]

The Bolshevik Bias Corporation's reporting reminds me of the bad old days in the U.S. when we had no one to keep old marxists like Eric Severeid honest.

[zook]

Here in southern Taiwan, I have to get most of my news from BBC World Service (shortwave). But it's become unbearable in the last 3 days. What they call "journalism" is literally a constant barrage of Iraqi spokesmen, anti-war "war experts," and leftwing propaganda.

Four times in the past 24 hours, for example, they've presented the same "feature" about Iraqis who had earlier fled the country to escape Hussein now boarding buses to head back home to "fight for their country", i.e. against the Coalition.

In one sorry display, the BBC reporter asked a group of men on a bus, "do all of you agree that you'd rather live under Sadam Hussein than see the coalition win?" To which, of course, several spoke in the affirmative.

And then there's the continuous rant that prefaces every question, "The Americans didn't plan for this resistance, did they?"

What's needed, tongue in cheek of course, is a major coalition attack on Bush House (BBC headquarters).