Hi tracy,

Interesting link.

However, I'm not sure what conclusions to take from this story. It talks about BBC somali news. It seems like to be a small department of the BBC though. Anyways the title indicates that it WAS a reliable source. Up until other signs of the BBC not reliable anymore, I'll have to take this as an incident (though I could not quite get what went wrong here), esspecially since the BBC always has been a reliable source of news.

Anyways,

Today on the dutch news: Our government has decided to stop hiring TV news journalists as media trainers and discussion leaders. They recognized that there might be a potential danger of mixed interests of journalist. They don't want to create an environment where journalist loose their independance because they indirectly might work for certain political parties this way. The government wants to avoid that at all cost.

Last night: a Very interesting documentary about John Kerry nicknamed 'life shot', a title earned in the 70's. With this discussion in mind I watched the documentary. As I said before the voice over was limiting its comments on facts. Other people (forestanders, former oponents, colleages, etc) raised their viewpoint on the person John Kerry during several stages of his political carreer. Very informative. One of the most obvious conclusions I could draw from that, is that he changed viewpoint more than once. OTOH, it 'seems' that he is willing to change his viewpoint when proven wrong. He generally takes a lot of time and talks to a lot of people for many many hours to set a standpoint.

I'm not drawing any conclusions whether that is good or bad. There are many sides to it IMO.

Walter,