Pepe, here's a terrible story from the war in Afghanistan. We accidentally killed a bunch of innocents, it seems. You may prefer the word 'negligently' but I will let what I wrote stand. So you have not in the past expressed opposition to the Afghan adventure. What do you think reporting like this does to the legitimate war effort over there? Do these deaths rate top story status on BBC? Mightn't already riled rags take this as yet another bit of proof that the West is at war with them qua rags?
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jj - the media's job is to report. I can see how it may be asked to delay reporting, say in a criminal case to avoid tipping off the bg, but ultimately the public needs to be informed in order to be able to make democratic decisions. Without access to facts, there is no democracy to speak of. In my view, this pretty much trumps everything else.
Sure. But there's an editorial choice in how much prominence to give this article. While you have a point (and make it hilariously) that the Right loses their bowels every time a muslim spits on the sidewalk, how is it that the left (=media, and in the BBC's case they admit it) loses their bowels when it's NATO that offs a couple innocents and ho-hums it when the Taliban do?
Why is it that a couple sunnis get killed by their nighbors in Bagdad and it's US incompetence, not sheer interreligious ferocity that has done it?
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