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Bored by Burma
The BBC Editors blog has this comment from Anthony, after a post by Steve Herrmann explaining the moral and logistical complexities of online coverage from Burma: Although I’m rather appalled at myself for thinking this – I find the current wave of Burma coverage very dull and uninteresting. In particular – absent the nice juicy…
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An Israeli reporter writes…
Great piece from Gideon Levy of Haaretz: It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B’Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than in many previous years. However, it was still a terrible year: 92 Palestinian children were killed…
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Hospital pic "doctored"
From Broadcast: Culture secretary James Purnell has become embroiled in a fakery row of his own after it emerged that a photo showing him visiting a hospital had been doctored.
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Andrew Gilligan: hero of journalism…
Andrew Gilligan takes one more chance to defend himself at CiF: Although Hutton was, of course, a tactical triumph for [Alastair Campbell], with a knockout victory in the report and three good BBC scalps, it was an unparalleled strategic disaster. If his aim in taking us on was to disprove my story about the sexed-up…