From a column in the London Telegraph:
Rather than applauding the extraordinary bravery of the eight million or so Iraqi voters who braved the threats of Abu Musab al-Masawi, al-Qaeda's point man in Iraq, the BBC led with the negative line, "Violence mars Iraqi elections." There had, it is true, been suicide bomb attacks on polling stations in Baghdad and elsewhere, killing more than 30 people, but the death toll was modest by comparison with what al-Masawi and his cohorts had threatened.
Some people are just bad losers. The BBC, together with a significant section of the media, could not bring itself to acknowledge that Iraq's liberation from Saddam was being ratified by the democratic process. When a reporter said that voter turn-out exceeded 60 per cent, far higher than expected, I heard one of the producers remark, sotto voce, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
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