The article from the London Telegraph that Jon L. blogs on below is interesting in comparison with this one from the New York Times. The Arab media had to decide early on January 30 whether to emphasize the bombs or the ballots.
After nearly two years of providing up-to-the-minute images of explosions and mayhem, and despite months of predictions of a blood bath on election day, some news directors said they found the decision surprisingly easy to make. The violence simply was not the story on Sunday morning; the voting was.
Apparently this obvious truth was lost on the BBC.
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