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I salute the courage of local journalists, not just in Syria, who really do risk their lives attempting to report the truth. Remember the execution of Farzad Bazoft before the first Gulf War in Iraq?

What a contrast to those that dishonour many thousands of dead Japanese Tsunami-victims by flying round the world to ignorantly and gleefully concentrate on reporting the difficulties of damaged nuclear power stations that killed nobody.

The difficulty of living in Syria is probably at least as difficult.

Rulers who shoot children are hardly likely to care about freedom of the press. The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ should always be prepared for this eventuality

Listening to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ commentaries from Beirut I am reminded that in the past ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ conflict journalists were in the forefront of front line news in countries far more dangerous than Syria.
The comments now coming from Beirut (and Tripoli) have little credibility and basis, and I am sure are severely edited at Bush House.
The Syrians are adept in learning and using the weaknesses of others, such as the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳; and showed this in the "second interview" this morning by drowning in "buts" and half promises. Give the Syrian Baa'th Party a few more "interviews" and the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ will discover they are not in control.
³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ should forget its Elf and Safety regime as well as its political correctness and get professional contacts into the country. Not easy but hell we pay £3.5 billion to this service.

Two days ago the Syrian government sponsored protestors to attack the Israeli border, resulting in the shooting to death of 10 of them and 8 others being blown up when they walked into a minefield. The Syrian authoritiesm whose state television was on had to record proceedings claimed 35 dead.

If Israeli civilians where caught up in a similar situation our army would be there in tanks, APC, with artillary firing at the enemy to rescue our people - that is not what is the Syrian army dead. Their spokesman, who is not as even handed as the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ conveniently forgot to mention that Syrian security forces killed 17 of their own people at the same time for their henious crime of wanting democracy.

If the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is interested in providing propaganda for the butcher then go ahead - but if you actually want to do something for the people of Syria then you could take the less risky apporach of repeatedly questioning DC as to why he thinks Libyans are worth rescuing (well partially) and the Syrians are no - once again he UK goes into he wrong country.

Little surprise that visa formalities should be so insurmountable a barrier to reporting the brutalities of a mass homocidal regime since the present ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is more a place of domestic, and these others, obedient political apprachiks, rather than anything of decent mention in the tradition of conflict journalism at its humane best.

Adding my commemt.

Little surprise that visa formalities should be so insurmountable a barrier to reporting the brutalities of a mass homocidal regime since the present ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is more a place of domestic, and these others, obedient political apprachiks, rather than anything of decent mention in the tradition of conflict journalism at its humane best.

No wealth for Britain and America to plunder so the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ dont go where the tories dont want them. After all its far easier to not go to war when teh tories PR department play down everything for them.
Dont forget when the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ lie about it being hard to get into Syria it was even harder to get into Libiya a country which saw the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ for what it really is a political pr department with no morals above those of its masters wishes.

Here we go again- the usual suspects warming up for another invasion, with the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ leading the charge. We have seen it all before, just how gullible can people be? I do not now believe a word I read on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳- once a liar, always a liar.

4. At 20:14 7th Jun 2011, cassandrina wrote:
Listening to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ commentaries from Beirut I am reminded that in the past ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ conflict journalists were in the forefront of front line news in countries far more dangerous than Syria.
The comments now coming from Beirut (and Tripoli) have little credibility and basis, and I am sure are severely edited at Bush House.
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Yup , what we need is brave right wing commentators to go out there and report the unadulterated truth - I vote for Kelvin McKenzie, Melanie Phillips and Richard - the more dangerous the location the better.

rulers who shoot children arnt you talking about britain and America or is it double standards that it ok for them to deliberatly do it but no one else?
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is a joke all it wants to do is push the tory pr line without any journolistic integrity at all.
time to stop paying your TV licence and get rid of these morons who dont do what their mandates says neutral impartial fair words never used about the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ tory PR department, who hate freedom of speach unless you are saying what the tories want to hear

May I remind thefrogstar of the following nuclear accidents

Some serious nuclear and radiation accidents have occurred. Nuclear power plant accidents include the Chernobyl disaster (1986), Fukushima I nuclear accidents (2011), and the Three Mile Island accident (1979).[10] Nuclear-powered submarine mishaps include the K-19 reactor accident (1961),[11] the K-27 reactor accident (1968),[12] and the K-431 reactor accident (1985).

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Darren Shepperd you got it spot on.
Beeb, will see you all at Bush House tomorrow to tell you all in person what we think of your fairy tales and we will not be saying Ahlan was Sahlan
We have not forgotten that Ben Brown called the Palestinians in Gaza "animals" when reporting from Al Quds when Islrael massacred the Palestinians [women and children] but of course that was OK with you lot wan't it?!

Barack insists that U.S. Forces attack Assad's Syrian Military. But, there is no money for this war. Obama threatens to assassinate Assad, instead. Obama will not solve this situation by the killings of Assad and Karzai. Syria and Afghanistan need democratic reform, but Barack's blood thirsty plots resulted in murders of thousands of innocent Arabs throughout the Middle East.

The courage shown by journalists should be admired I doubt I could do it.

How can we get a clear view of the story unfolding in Syria. The people of Syria deserve democracy but will they get it. At this point it is unlikely that any help will come from the West. Their resources are depleted and their peoples are weary of war. Like many other countries that received little or no help from outside their borders, the Syrians may have to find a way to throw off their oppressors on their own. Unfortunately this will probably not be done by peaceful protests but by armed rebellion leading to civil war.

Following the death of South African photographic journalist Anton Hammerl in Libya recently, there has certainly been much coverage about the very real risks and challenges journalists face when . Syria is clearly no different and it would do the public well to remember these harsh conditions journalists need to endure to bring them the news.

This is one area where the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ has excelled (both locally and internationally for that matter) - I do believe the coverage is fair and current given the operating conditions in these regions.. keep up the good work!

@Davey111 - I have friends that have worked out in Tunisia and Egypt covering the African revolts and having heard some their stories, I know I would never be able to do it!

10.At 22:38 8th Jun 2011, Billythefirst wrote:
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Yup , what we need is brave right wing commentators to go out there and report the unadulterated truth - I vote for Kelvin McKenzie, Melanie Phillips and Richard - the more dangerous the location the better.
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Replace 'right-wing' with 'centrist', and you might just have a point.

The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ had reporters in Burma a few months ago. Syria has been closed to journalists for three months, Burma for fifty years. What is the real problem.

Sky?

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I believe we should see all sides of the story, like all countries there are those who are with and those who are against and unfortunately media sometimes doesn't relay the whole pictures emphasizing on what brings audience and get higher ratings
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We all know what is happening in Syria from the many graphic horrific photos/videos coming out of there for the past couple of months, so what I'd like to know most is... what the world is going to do about it? And when?


For too long, we as the free world (in general) have kowtowed too much to the whims of China & Russia...let's throw another J.F. Kennedy dice & call their bluff.


PS. The Iranian government not people...are in the thick of it in Syria.

Oh & another thing re; how Syria & Bahrain are getting away with this terror & slaughter; so is it any wonder that Egypt's military government is going back on it's word? I tell you this for sure, there will be an awful price paid by the people in Egypt because of our (the UN/the world's) cowardice.