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Sunday, February 10 2008Readers Score Victory Over The GuardianIn response to HonestReporting readers, The Guardian took off-line that one-sided Reuters video about the Dimona. The paper also acknowledged: The video should have included a more balanced selection of interviewees.
TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Readers Score Victory Over The Guardian: CommentsSuggestion: Please include an e-mail to thank a news source for acting in a responsible fashion. In addition to simple politesse it reinforces sources for their actions by indicating that they has been noticed. I agree with Mel. I'd like to be able to thank news suppliers for acting responsibly in removing bad stories/videos. It further encourages them to act responsibly in the future. Israel extends an olive branch of peace to the palestinians, they inturn send suicide bombers and rockets into their civilian population all while the Bush administration calls for a two state solution and asks Israel for restraint on military responses, Israel listen up ! Don't listen to the US, defend your people ! drive out of your land including Gaza your enemies or demand Egypt controls Gaza Having lived in England I know the British to be honest and fair minded. I'm reassured by their responce. Bob Great job. IT is a small step in the sea of disinformation. It is great that the Guardian have at last done the right thing--BUT----unfortunatly the damage was already done for weeks prior when they released the article. Reluctantly I will give them the benefit of the doubt as to their real intent of apology but knowing how the general press is???????? and time will tell what lessons they adhere to. Thanks for adhering to posting news in an unbiased light. You are to be commended on your understanding. Good for the Honest Reporting-job well done!!Given the venom in GB to US and Israel, you get even more credit!! Good work, HR. Although the Guardian is a left-wing rag with all the usual prejudiced attitudes towards Israel, it is far more honest than the BBC, for example. While the BBC does its utmost to hide inconvenient facts, the Guardian tends to report them. And I can't imagine the BBC acknowledging a lack of balance in any of its anti-Israel reporting. It has this ridiculous idea that it is impartial. But I have a couple of quibbles: the Guardian did not say which side suffered from the lack of balance or which side complained. Nobody who missed the video will know who the injured party was here. And as you rightly point out, HR, the damage has already been done by the biased video. Also, the claim that they didn't have time to get the Israeli viewpoint is just a blatant lie. Israeli spokespeople are always available to give their point of view on these atrocities, or anything else. The Guardian didn't WANT to get Israel's side of the story. You really want to wait until it happens to you. You are short-minded. Well done to everyone who helped on this one. It does help to reinforce the campaign for proper journalism when we get this kind of result. But it's a very long process. Each complaint helps to get the message across. Thank you Mel and others above for bringing that up as I was also one of the ones who repeatedly complained. And to their credit they responded and that's also important as my own media cbc wouldn't have even bothered to respond let alone change the news page site. And yes the results should and will be acknowledge by this writer in an email back to them. Post a comment[Comments are held for approval before appearing.]
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