Well done. Good luck with your future studies.

Personally, I have been watching a bit of BBC news 24, also reading the Jewish Chronicle on line to see how the Isreali side reports, some Guardian & my weekly regular "The Week" which collects articles from all the papers and juxtaposes them + some first hand accounts - just because for this particular issue I happen to know people in the area. Now you might say I choose publications that are a bit leftie and 'my friends' have bias and certain political leanings, its all just chinese whispers blah blah- so how can I trust what they say? Thats true, but I make a personal choice to select and reject - based on nothing scientific - just feelings and beliefs. But I make no claims to even handedness or unbiased reports.

Richmond, I think you make 2 valid points. only one sentence( it was all I could remember from last nights news + haven't got the time, energy to produce a full on analysis. Besides don't want to inflict it on you) 2nd point - the 2nd sentence is horribly bias -agreed. I wasn't trying to disguise it - i said it was bias. I was trying to make the point, certain words put together in a certain way can construct very different meanings...and bias. We're all bias one way or the other, I know I am - but I think it is important not to pretend.
Re - my extra info, well I guess I do what every one else does, I put together little bits and pieces from what I hear, see , read, from a variety of sources both 1st hand and 2nd hand.
I don't think there is a right or wrong in interpretation or representation - we all do what we do, dependng on who we are, & where we have been & what we think we know. The only point I am resolute on - is the media in NOT neutral.

Golf pro - what is your research subject area?

BBC

I think there is an excellent discussion of media bias on this website.
http://rhetorica.net/meter.htm

A very crude example…
“Details have emerged about the deaths of four unarmed UN observers after an Israeli air strike hit a UN post in south Lebanon.” Seemingly this is a report that tells its audience about how those 4 UN employees died. But notice how their passing away is described as a death. Good on one hand as the word death explains they are not alive as the result of an air tack, and bad on the other as death doesn’t indicate that their not being alive was the result of anything deliberate. Again the airstrike “hit” a UN post. Actually the UN personnel called in over 5 times their co-ordinates, the airstrike didn’t crash or accidentally bang into them. The Israeli army knew the exact location and who was occupying it, so one might decide to replace the word hit with “targeted”.
“Details have emerged about the murder of four unarmed UN observers after an Israeli air strike targeted a UN post in south Lebanon.” –reveals a new bias all together. The 1ST sentence appears to be telling unbiased facts, that inform about the situation in Lebanon, favouring Lebanon, but is this really the case?

I have also researched and spoken on the media’s reportage of terrorism and have close academic friends who have researched media coverage of the first Iraq war & a friend who is about to publish a book on the last 25 years of TV coverage of the Israeli conflict. I also have the experience of being in Israel as a child & also spent time as a teenager during the early stages of war in the Ivory Coast and know first hand that the media coverage did not reflect what I personally witnessed.
Glof-pro -It wasn’t an off the cuff lightly made comment intended to hurt your feelings.

If (& I think you are) referring to my comments I certainly didn’t call you stupid. I am genuinely sorry if this is what you inferred. I think you are naïve if you rely on the media for an unbiased report, but stupid no.
I based my comments on 3 years working in a UK national TV news room and the experiences of my partner who is a broadcast journalist on national TV & Radio, and several close friends and colleagues who are/have been reporters both in Europe and the Middle East. I do understand 1st hand the editing process, the leverage and gatekeeping influence of politics in the media.

Aww My Cat Loves that one!
Let us not forget though that Fergal did sing the lyrics on Teenage Kicks - all time fav of the late & great Jon Peel

no DJ & music producers, of old skool hardcore.
However I do remember the other Sharkey ( not to be confused with fergal sharkey). Are you refering to the fish, slash two bit gansta ?

Poor DJwickid. I have heard of someone hanging themselves with a piece of tissue role, but never a cut with a bit of cooked pasta.
Italy must have terrible problems.
Cheer up, I've just seen your letter to Uncle Dan B and I am hear to tell you I remember Sharkey & Hixxy.

Many thanks for your advice with this writingup. The deadline was 5pm on that day & yours was the only help I got!
I just heard my abstract has been accepted.

Its a brighton thing. I forgot to add on my glowing review of the city, it is also an extremely humane place.
The Patron Saint, Sir Norman of Cook would be proud of you Bruno .

Young Mr Grace, only Mrs Solcombe can handle her.