The Secret Millions of Senior PA Officials
Even now, when the ground is burning and the future of the peace process is cloudy, senior PA officials find time to deal with the truly important things. The name of the game is...
Official PA Radio News the PBC Radio November 27
Summary and Analysis
VOP moved into its Ramadan schedule with a marked heightening of the Islamic content of its programming, while escalating the rhetorical side of its news reports. Israeli fire at Palestinian targets in...
Official PA Radio News the PBC Radio November 26
Summary and Analysis
VOP has been taking an uncharacteristically low-key tone regarding Israeli casualties in the last few days.
It is not only that Israeli civilian deaths and casualties, even in major attacks such as the...
Bombs Don’t Distinguish Between a Jew and an Arab
Thara Abu-Hussein, a one-year old baby from the town of Baka al-Garbiya, sustained moderate to severe injuries in yesterday’s attack. She suffers from burns on 15% of her body.
The baby was transferred yesterday to...
Hadera Bombing: Strategic Terror
The Palestinians regard bombing terror attacks as strategic terror. This terror is meant to achieve diplomatic goals within a short period of time by using “shock therapy” on Israeli public opinion.
The Palestinian terror organizations...
HaAretz: Israeli Government Beginning to Classify Israeli Arab Population As a Security Threat
In a new assessment of threats to the security of towns and villages, conducted in the wake of October's clashes between security forces and Israeli Arabs, the Defense and Public Security ministries have compiled...
Official PBC Radio News The Voice of Palestine November 23, 2000
Summary and Analysis
The Voice of Palestine generally downplayed the bus bombing yesterday in Hadera, preferring to use items about Palestinian martyrs for the lead for its news shows and summaries.
Morning Commentary -- Youssef al-Kazzaz
"First...
The Voice of Palestine November 12, 2000: Featuring Arafat’s Message to the Islamic Summit
Note: Arafat often speaks in a mixture of sentence fragments and run-on sentences in some of his appearances. This was apparent especially in the following remarks. In other words, the syntax is Arafat's and...
BBC: an Excercise in Tendentious Coverage?
We reviewed six days of BBC TV news coverage (October 3-9) from the Middle East, to test for tendentiousness in three categories:
Was the reporter airing a personal opinion in the news report?
Were views from...
BBC TENDENTIOUSNESS CHART
BBC Tendentiousness Test Chart
Time
Reporter
Airs own opinion?
Both sides presented?
Key words
October 3
1 p.m.
Paul Adams
yes
no
6 p.m.
Paul Adams
yes
no
9 p.m.
Ben Brown
yes
no
massacre, President Arafat
9 p.m.
Paul Adams
yes
no
BBC2
7-9 a.m.
Clive Myrie
no
no
demonstrations, Hostilities, Al Aksa compound
October 4
1 p.m.
Paul Adams
yes
no
Israeli snipers
9 p.m.
Ben Brown
yes
no
Uprising
BBC1 October 5
1...