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Tale of Two Stories Posted on November 15, 2014 by David Guy How the BBC inverts the news In the latest BBC ‘Palestinian’ story, the headline leads the reader to believe that this is mainly about his demise. Yet out of 466 words only 49, including the headline and the bold type lead paragraph, have anything directly to do with the death. It’s a classic case of semantic manipulation, Media Studies 101, if you will. Compare how the BBC reports Palestinian deaths with the way it reports Israeli deaths. Palestinian ‘shot dead by Israeli army’ in Hebron Israeli woman and soldier killed in two knife attacks Continue reading → Posted in 5MFI Blog | Tagged BBC, inverted pyramid, media bias | Comments Off
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:44:01 +0000

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