Reply #18: No rah rah session news over here

[dipsydoodle]

we are English after all - ha ha ! I guess the background is that once upon a time there was only the BBC - very staid and upright. In the old days it was "the fact just the facts". Through to the eighties they increasingly came under pressure from ITN whose newscoverage got better and better both in terms of content and presentation. Sky News was obliged to stay with their formats to give itself credibility and also remain equally unbiased. None of our news channels bear any resemblance to Fox etc.

Our American cousins could easlily draw comparisons by simply watching both CNN and CNN International as the latter obviously recognises that the rest of the world doesn't necessarily want American style news.

On the subject of Israel/ Palestine there may have been more video coverage from all news channels of the Lebanonese landscape itself but in terms of dialogue it has been balance between the two countries.