Taking Sides
August 24, 2006 | Aussie Dave | Comments 2
Back in the days when I lived in Western Australia, Liam Bartlett was a newsreader/radio announcer for Perth’s ABC. He has now progressed to being a reporter for Australia’s 60 Minutes.
The reason I mention this is that his first story for 60 Minutes – dealing with Australians fighting for the IDF and for Hizbullah – is now online. It is fascinating, and I think deals fairly with the subject matter (I also happen to remember the young Perth man interviewed, from when he was just a child). Liam manages to show what motivates these young men and women, and shows an understanding for the Israeli side. Richard Carleton he ain’t.
You can check out the story here.
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About the Author: An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
Aussie, you would on the other hand be shocked by the bias shown by SBS on Dateline this week. Loads of emotive footage from Lebanon, with no differing opinions at all [guess which ones we got], and no objective war analysis or interviews either.
Negus then aggressively interviewed an Israeli in his usuial style, about the genuine debates and flak going on there -but NO footage of any Israeli damage was shown as balance. Impression: ‘Israel lost, and deserved to.’
Democratic analysis seems only necessary in Israel, according to Negus’s Dateline. As for Lebanon, it’s all ‘Go Hezb, our Resistance!’
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