Sorry, but the Beeb Really Got It Wrong Over New Orleans ; Some Reporting Was Fine, but the Balance of Coverage in the Big Easy Crisis Was Faulty
Evening Standard - London › September 21, 2005
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TONY Blair's fury at the way the BBC covered the Hurricane Katrina disaster is more justified than many people think - but I fear will have about as much impact as a swamped levee on the mindset of much of the Corporation.
The BBC is an organisation with its own unique and often unconscious arrogance when it comes to many things about America, and everything about its president, George Bush.See the full content of this document
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Sorry, but the Beeb Really Got It Wrong Over New Orleans ; Some Reporting Was Fine, but the Balance of Coverage in the Big Easy Crisis Was Faulty
The reason is simple: many senior Beeb staff believe Bush is mad and bad.
Sometimes that shows just a bit too much, and the coverage of Hurricane Katrina was one such time. In my book, Rupert Murdoch was absolutely right to pass on the extent of the PM's dismay at a top- level media convention in New York."He [Blair] said it was just full of hate ...See the full content of this document
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