sábado, junho 19, 2004

Quem diz BBC diz...

Estive a ler um artigo de Tom Gross na National Review Online, acerca da informação — ou da ausência dela — na BBC.

Pouco mais de meia dúzia de linhas bastaram para me deixar um pouco perdido — já não sabia muito bem se aquilo era sobre a BBC ou sobre a TSF.

Um exemplo:
Some of the foreign BBC staff are quite open about their sympathies for Hamas. The senior BBC Arabic Service correspondent in the Gaza Strip, Fayad Abu Shamala, told a Hamas rally on May 6, 2001, (attended by the then Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin) that journalists and media organizations in Gaza, including the BBC, are "waging the campaign [of resistance/terror against Israel] shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people."
Agora troquem BBC por TSF e Fayad Abu Shamala por José Goulão e digam-me que não tinha razão para estar um bocado confundido.
# Lançado por PSA às 7:36:00 da manhã
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)