Low Earth Orbit

The BBC losing audience share

The HMS Ark Royal has terminated the BBC on board and now watches Sky News instead because of the unacceptable pro-Saddam bias of the BBC. [source]

History repeats itself

A poster from Hungary, advising the voters that they are still permitted to vote “NO” to joining the EU. Apparently this poster is a little too accurate because it's being removed as “hate speech” because it uses the wrong symbology. I wonder if the same rules apply to the “Bush = Hitler” protest signs. [source]

Al Jazeera objectivity

An Al Jazeera reporter was killed during a Coalition attack on Baghdad. The reporter was staying in a building next to the Ba'ath Information Ministry and Republican Guard headquarters which the Western media had fled at the start of the invasion because it screamed “bomb me!” Al Jazeera put the standard spin on it [source]

An Al-Jazeera reporter on-air said he felt, as did his colleagues, the U.S. strike was a deliberate attack against the network, since two missiles hit the building, not one, and that the raid happened at about the same time Abu Dhabi TV offices were hit.

Al-Jazeera's own report has the headline “Dead Al Jazeera correspondent deliberately targeted”.

I will not be objective about this because we have been dragged into this conflict," said Tayseer Alouni. "We were targeted because the Americans don't want the world to see the crimes they are committing against the Iraqi people."