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Originally Posted by Dace
Just on an aside the BBC no longer use the word "terrorist".
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Well they still use in when discussing Hamas albeit indirectly. For instance :
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after Palestinian elections brought to power Hamas, a militant group that has refused to renounce violence or recognise Israel and is regarded as a terrorist organisation by the EU and US.
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Source (June 16th - unless it's a more recent change than that.)
Which might seem fair enough - they are after all merely representing other people's viewpoints. However, as far as I know when they are talking about Israel (or Israel's political parties) they don't say "Israel...considered a terrorist state by many Palestenians". Or the United States "...considered to be a source of terrorist crimes by many millions of people" for that matter.
Media Lens made a smilar point about the BBC coverage of
Chavez. To summarise their point : Chavez is "the left wing leader of Venezuala" while Blair or Bush are simply the PM or President. It normalises one sides representation at the expense of the other.