Post by charmbrights on Jun 14, 2014 8:58:20 GMT
It was interesting to contrast the BBC and ITN attitude to the ISIS activities in Iraq during the news programmes last evening (13th June).
As there was some sporting event on BBC the two 10 o'clock news broadcasts were ten minutes apart starting.
The ITN description was of a Sunni uprising against a hated Shia government. It showed, among other things, ISIS fighters repairing damaged electricity cables, and said that ISIS was basically welcomed by the local population as the region was almost entirely Sunni.
The BBC description emphasised the concept that Jihadists had invaded northern Iraq, bent on the overthrow of the legitimate government. The message became somewhat hard to follow as the BBC emphasised that the Iraqi army had simply run away when the Jihadists arrived, but then showed large groups of young men who, it claimed, were joining the Iraqi army in unprecedented numbers, and then a group of camouflaged men who were described as "Shia militants.
All I can deduce from these two different depictions is that there is a full-blown sectarian struggle going on (virtually a civil war) and that the BBC has decided that it is on the Shia side.
As there was some sporting event on BBC the two 10 o'clock news broadcasts were ten minutes apart starting.
The ITN description was of a Sunni uprising against a hated Shia government. It showed, among other things, ISIS fighters repairing damaged electricity cables, and said that ISIS was basically welcomed by the local population as the region was almost entirely Sunni.
The BBC description emphasised the concept that Jihadists had invaded northern Iraq, bent on the overthrow of the legitimate government. The message became somewhat hard to follow as the BBC emphasised that the Iraqi army had simply run away when the Jihadists arrived, but then showed large groups of young men who, it claimed, were joining the Iraqi army in unprecedented numbers, and then a group of camouflaged men who were described as "Shia militants.
All I can deduce from these two different depictions is that there is a full-blown sectarian struggle going on (virtually a civil war) and that the BBC has decided that it is on the Shia side.
