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Her Majesty's BBC's Syria Coverage: "Sorry for the Lies"...

• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Felicity Arbuthno
 

“Creativity is the lifeblood of our organisation.” (BBC Mission statement.)

As the sabre rattling towards Iran and the ongoing tragedy in Syria become increasingly hard to unravel, "media errors" or perhaps even "obfuscation" create their own navigational complexities.

One example: on Sunday July 1st, BBC news programmes repeatedly stated that Syrian troops had fired at mourners at a funeral in or near Damascus (i.) Para 4:

“...Meanwhile, activists said a funeral procession in a suburb of Damascus came under mortar attack and 30 people died.

“The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights released amateur video footage claiming to show the explosion in Zamalka, a town 10km (six miles) east of the Syrian capital.

“There has been no independent confirmation of the incident.”

However the Los Angeles Times had an entirely different take on exactly the same event (ii.) A car bomb, rather than mortar attacks by Syrian forces, had killed up to eighty five mourners or members of the public:


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