Monday 21 October 2013

The Mainstream Media

There a several instances of the mainstream media being biased/adding a certain angle/or not covering the story due to controversy. Due most of the mainstream media outlets being Government funded or by very influential companies, the stories they choose to report on could be the ones that reflect the world in a certain way, or report a story in a certain way so that you take a side, probably there's.




Recently there's been some evidence off BBC reusing/dubbing material from an interview a month prior, if you listen at 2:15 in the first interview and then listen 2 in the second you will notice they have reused her line out of the original context:

"It seems like some kind of napalm attack"
2:15

"It seems like some kind of chemical attack"
2.00

When someone uploaded a video to Youtube highlighting these mistakes made by BBC the video was removed for this reason:





BBC has also been caught using a 2003 Iraq massacre photo in reference to a recent Syrian attack, the photo they used was taken by Marco di Lauro:



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