The Bagdat Blogger.

[Bereta_Eder]

What you saw from a camera for some seconds doesnt making a wide all encompasing reality. I hope you realize that.

[Edan]

I think one of us is going to end up crosseyed...

[Sava]

[brainwashed chant]
we believe our TV
[/brainwashed chant]

[Dinner]

Originally posted by paiktis22
the brit press consistently gets low grades in quality of press studies in europe.

When you say quality of press studios what are you refering to? The decor in the background of each broadcast?

Seriously, I'm willing to bet that it is a highly subjective survey where some biased intellectuals sit around and complain that so and so new organization doesn't bias the news towards their own personal political ideology.

[Edan]

Originally posted by paiktis22
What you saw from a camera for some seconds doesnt making a wide all encompasing reality. I hope you realize that.

Actually, I had one of my computers at work set to a webcam on bagdad, so I was looking at more than a few seconds.

And yes, like I said, it wasn't buisness as usual. My point is that not everyone was standing around shellshocked for a month, 24 hours a day. And neither were the bombs going off 24 hours a day. Given that the blogger found time to write down his ideas during those days, it makes me think he could have typed them up in the same amount of time.

[Bereta_Eder]

Oerdin, the studies are done by independant international journalist unions.

Edan, glad you realize that it wasn't business as usual and an interaption of the blogger in the early days is wholly justified.

[Dinner]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by paiktis22
Oerdin, the studies are done by independant international journalist unions. [QUOTE]

In other words biased reporters (face it all people are biased) from around Europe (I've got money which says the majority are left of center) get mad and vote against centrist and right of center publications.

That's sounding alot like I described in my previous post.

[Bereta_Eder]

BBC and many other brit newspapers are not right.

[Bereta_Eder]

of course you can all attribute it to a vast anti-UK conspiracy from all over europe and be done with it.

Might save you some trouble from thinkign what to say next.

[Dinner]

No vast comspiracy; just the bias of individual people who want to vote for biased new groups who support their personal bias.

That's all.

[Bereta_Eder]

In other words a paneuropean orchestrated biased campaign against Britain.

Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.

I'd rather just believe that the brit press is not so good and be done with it.

[Ming]

Are you still doing your Brit bashing Paiktis...

No matter what you hear, it's going to be biased... no matter who it comes from. The trick is to at least realize what the bias is, and not fall for the propaganda hook line and sinker...

[Bereta_Eder]

The Brit press is fairly good (unless although even this is relative has to do with Britain) but certaintly not amonst the top in europe as oerdin desperately wants to believe.

Since he will not takemy word for it I mentioned the studies of international associations of journalists.

That is not a bias.

[DanS]

I've been reading Salam Pax's blog since well before the war. You can never be sure, but he seems legit.

I guess that Blogspot could tell the domain that he's posting from and put the kaibash on any BS. A lot of news organizations, including PBS, have talked about the blog, so Blogspot was probably asked to authenticate him.

Edit: There was only 1 ISP in Iraq before the war--the Iraqi Olympic Committee.

[Ming]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Since he will not takemy word for it I mentioned the studies of international associations of journalists.

That is not a bias.

Believe me when I say that even that is biased...

I would have to review the technical appendix of the studies... as well as the questionares... but there is always a bias. But you are probably right in saying it "maybe" less biased than other sources...

Again... EVERYTHING HAS A BIAS...