Yeah I saw that. My wife reads Arabic and she also said most of the banners were calling for Saddam to be executed but the commentators were all saying this was an anti -American demonstration. ITN news did cover this briefly on its lunchtime edition but it was missing from the evening broadcast, where they followed the line of it being an anti US rally. Intrestingly the BBC website replaced pictures which showed the banners to a series of pictures where the writing was obscured meaning the words could not be seen.

I read the piece by David Miller, from the UK's Glasgow Media Group when he told Aljazeera.net that every reputable media study proves the majority of western media coverage on Iraq is biased. He said that media coverage of areas outside of Baghdad and Falujha was nearly non existent and yet in these areas there was little if any insurgant activity.

incrediable

isn't it lucky we have you to tell us the truth

How dare you come here telling us the truth about Iraq.

Go away we wish only to hear our own views

The BBC started its coverage with a set premis - the war was wrong. Nearly every piece of broadcasting they have produced after that has been in support of that viewpoint.

The BBC is biased - tell us something we don't know !

David Miller at the Glasgow Media Group was shouted down during a recent meeting when he showed a video of UK troops being cheered by Iraqis after the building of a water works. David is and was a fierce critic of the war but thinks all the story of Iraq should be shown. At the moment the popular outlets are pushing an anti US line because screaming Iraqi make for more spectacular TV. Stories of reconciliation, rebuilding, and calm do not.

Here in Zambia we get a much wider view of the situation in Iraq. Our news is a mixture of BBC, SABC and BEN. When I speak to British friends I am always surprised they do not see the same pictures we do of the activties of British soldiers. The output of the BBC World Service seems very diffferent to the domestic stuff. I think a previous contributor was right, journalists are expected to provide "spectacular" pictures and stories and a riot is always a better picture than a bridge being built.

I am glad Saddam Hussain has gone and the people have their democratic freedom. With all the world's help they can build a good country.

What an absolute pile of shit – I have family in Iraq and they what to see Sadam punished but they want to run there country. The don’t want Laws made by the US and permanent US soldiers in there country. The Idea that the BBC are anti war is also a pile of utter dodo. Yes it true that they don’t report on the fact that some electricity pylons were erected and concentrate on the fact that hundreds of people are murdered every week – I apologies on there behalf. Almost all demonstrations in Iraq people shout Down with Sadam Down with George Bush. If you knew anything about Iraq or the people you would relies that there a lots of news papers printed in Baghdad any the Iraqis don’t believe any of them - pro or anti occupation.

HAY JERKOFF - LOOK AT THIS NEWS WIRE

04/20/05 Anatolia: Estonia extends troops' mission in Iraq
Estonia's parliament on Wednesday extended the mission of Estonian troops in Iraq until the end of the year and left open the possibility of keeping troops there in 2006 if the United Nations extends the mandate of coalition forces.
04/20/05 Reuters: Suicide bomb explodes near Iraq political party
A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up near the political party headquarters of Iraq's caretaker prime minister Iyad Allawi on Wednesday and casualties were feared, a police official said.
04/20/05 AP: Oregon National Guard soldier to get Purple Heart
Private 1st Class Matthew Braddock with the 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry in Kirkuk was injured while conducting patrols. He was treated in Tikrit and transferred to Landstuhl Army Medical Center in Germany.
04/20/05 National Guard and Reserve Mobilized as of April 20, 2005
This week, the Air Force announced an increase, while the Army, Navy and Coast Guard had a decrease in the number of reservists. The Marine Corps had no change in their numbers. The net collective result is 155 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.
04/20/05 Reuters: Car bombs hit Iraqi National Guard base - witness
Two car bombs blew up at the entrance to an Iraqi National Guard base in Ramadi on Wednesday, witnesses said. Thick clouds of smoke poured into the air and gunfire could be heard immediately afterwards.
04/20/05 IRIB: 100 bodies plucked from Tigris river
One hundred bodies have been retrieved from Tigris River in the al-Sawrah region near the city of Madaen, al-Sabah newspaper reported. According to the newsparer, another 12 corpses have been found in a poultry farm nearby.
04/20/05 Register: Injured Iowa National Guard soldiers identified
The Iowa National Guard today identified three soldiers who were wounded Saturday night in a mortar attack upon their military base in Iraq. Injured in the attack were Sgt. Troy Deroos, Spc. Marty Sackman, and Spc. Robeert Briggs.
04/20/05 CENTCOM: TWO TASK FORCE BAGHDAD SOLDIERS KILLED IN VBIED ATTACK
Two Task Force Baghdad Soldiers died April 19 after a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near their patrol around 7 p.m. in southern Baghdad.
04/20/05 SkyNews: OVER 50 BODIES FOUND
The bodies of more than 50 iraqi hostages have been found in the Tigris River south of Baghdad, according to the Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani.
04/20/05 Reuters: Insurgents Kill 19 Iraq National Guards
Insurgents killed 19 Iraqi National Guards in a soccer stadium on Wednesday after taking them prisoner, a hospital spokesman and a witness said. The killings followed clashes in the area between National Guardsmen, U.S. troops and rebels
04/20/05 PowerOne: Soldier escapes injury when Humvee blows up
The explosion blew off the right front wheel, bent the chassis skyward, and knocked Puccini and his driver into the rear of the vehicle. But they escaped serious injury or death.
04/20/05 KRT: Battalion commander injured by IED in Iraq
Lt. Col. Scott Spellmon, who commands the Brigade Troops Battalion, will head home this week from an Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, said Lt. Col. Jim DesJardin, the brigade's rear detachment commander.
04/20/05 NYTimes: Soldier from Nashua killed in Iraq
The last call from Sgt. Angelo Lozada Jr. was a happy one: He was headed home in two weeks. But this weekend, his family learned that Lozada, 36, was one of three soldiers killed in combat in Ramadi, Iraq.
04/20/05 Canadian Press: insurgent attacks continues in Iraq
In Wednesday's violence, a car bomb exploded near a U.S. convoy in an area of western Baghdad where the notorious Abu Ghraib prison is located, setting an oil tanker on fire.
04/20/05 FairfieldLedger: Mortar attack injures three in Iraq
Three Iowa Army National Guard soldiers, all members of Company C, 224th Engineer Battalion, were injured Saturday in a mortar attack at Camp Blue Diamond near Ramadi, about 70 miles west of Baghdad.
04/20/05 aljazeera_AFP: More Drive by shootings
In Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, armed men in a speeding car opened fire on policeman Ali Talib as he walked towards his car, killing him, said police Colonel Husain Abd al-Wahid.
04/20/05 Focus: Third Car Bomb Blast in Baghdad, Three Injured
Three Iraqi civilians were injured when a third consecutive car bomb blasted in Baghdad, AFP reported. A second car bomb blasted in Baghdad less than two hours after another suicide car bomb hit the southern part of the Iraqi capital.
04/20/05 Reuters: Car Bombs Kill Two Iraqi Civilians
Two car bomb attacks killed two Iraqi civilians and wounded eight on Wednesday, police said. Two Iraqis were killed and five wounded in an attack on a U.S. military convoy in the Amariya district of western Baghdad, they said.
04/20/05 Reuters: Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Baghdad Bomb Blast
A bomb blast near a U.S. military patrol in Baghdad killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded four ... The bomb went off in the west of the capital late on Tuesday, as the patrol was moving near the airport road ...
04/20/05 USA Today: Violence is "off the chart" in area on Iraq border
Untamed even by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the area has been a haven for insurgents, smugglers and thieves who wage daily battles among themselves in the city ... Almost as frequently ... the combatants turn their automatic weapons ... on Marines ...
04/19/05 MSNBC: Angel of Mercy
Marla Ruzicka was one of a kind. The Baghdad death of the unorthodox young aid worker has devastated those who knew her.
04/19/05 AP: 4 Mississippi soldiers, one from Alabama injured in Iraq
Powell said Sgts. Terrance A. Elizenberry of Clinton and Wyman H. Jones of Columbus were injured along with Staff Sgt. Tommy S. Little of Aliceville, Ala., Pfc. Stephen B. Brooks of Columbus, and Sgt. 1st Class Grayson N. Galatas of Meridian.
04/19/05 CENTCOM: MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ INVESTIGATES ALTERCATION
An altercation occurred this morning at Checkpoint # 2 in the International Zone as the Transitional National Assembly was gathering. The altercation involved a member of the Assembly, Coalition Force members, and Iraqi Security Forces.
04/19/05 CENTCOM: AUSTRALIAN TAKES COMMAND OF MARITIME OPERATIONS ARABIAN GULF
Commodore Steve Gilmore of the Royal Australian Navy assumed command of Task Force 58 from Rear Adm. Christopher Ames at 11 a.m. the morning of April 17. Gilmore is the first member of the Royal Australian Navy to lead the MTF.
04/19/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Cpl. Tyler J. Dickens, 20 died April 12 at Brooke Army Medical Center, of injuries sustained April 6 in Al Mahmudiyah, Iraq, when his guard tower caught fire. Dickens was assigned to the Army’s 2nd Squd., 11th Armored Cavalry Reg.
04/19/05 DOD Identifies Army Casualty
Pfc. Sam W. Huff, 18, of Tucson, Ariz., died April 18 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained on April 17 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near her HMMWV. Huff was assigned to the 170th Military Police Company ...
04/19/05 Pilot: Soldier from Eastern Shore killed in combat in Iraq
Army Sgt. Tromaine K. Toy Sr., 24, was one of three soldiers killed Saturday when a Marine base came under indirect fire in the city about 60 miles west of Baghdad, according to Central Command officials.
04/19/05 PakistanTimes: 15 Killed by Guerrilla attacks in Iraq
Near Haditha, another violent city on the river Euphrates northwest of the capital, residents said U.S. warplanes bombed a suspected insurgent hideout. Local doctor Waleed al-Hadithi said two people were killed and three wounded.
04/19/05 PakistanTimes: Another suicide car bomber detonated next to Army convoy
Another suicide car bomber detonated next to a U.S. army convoy traveling close to the capital's international airport and locals said there were many casualties.
04/19/05 AFP: Iraqi forces recapture lawless town but no hostages found
Ansar al-Sunna meanwhile posted video footage of what it said was the execution of three Iraqi employees of a Jordanian company working for the US army.
04/19/05 KUNA: Iraqi Police, armed protestors clashed in southern Iraq
The Iraqi Police clashed on Tuesday with armed protestors in the town of Dewayah in Nasiriyah Province, southern Iraq. Three Iraqi policemen were injured and transported to a hospital for treatment.
04/19/05 Michiana: Family skeptical of soldier's death
The father of a soldier from northwestern Indiana is asking the army to tell him more about how his 20-year-old son died in Iraq.
04/19/05 khilafah: Top secret intell. unit will quit Belfast for new role in Iraq
THE most secret military unit serving in Northern Ireland is to be pulled out of the Province and posted to Iraq and to other operational missions overseas.
04/19/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualties
The DoD announced today the death of three soldiers who died April 16 in Ar Ramadi. Sgt. Angelo L. Lozada Jr., 36, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Sgt. Tromaine K. Toy Sr., 24, of Eastville, Va. Spc. Randy L. Stevens, 21, of Swartz Creek, Mich.
04/19/05 Flint Journal: Family mourns soldier lost in Iraq
U.S. Army Spc. Randy Lee Stevens was one of three soldiers killed and seven injured during what the military called "an indirect fire attack" Saturday on their base about 70 miles west of Baghdad.