BBC - British Bias Centre

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I lived about 9 miles from Kingston. I rode towards it on a bright and quiet day, stopping at a plaza for a time, then going two miles closer to town. Nothing was happening, people were talking, shopping, average day. When I got home I turned on the BBC and heard about how Jamaica was in turmoil, soldiers and police and shootings, on and on, making it seem the whole island was a war zone. Later, watching the local news, I learned that there had been a situation in Tivoli Gardens. This in a small enclosed community about a mile west of Kingston. What stunned me was that I had always trusted 'the World's Radio Station' (as it calls itself). The BBC was shrieking about the unrest when there was nothing going on outside of that one enclosed community. Just imagine a demonstration in a small neighbourhood in New York and the BBC reporting it as if America was in turmoil. From that day, over fifteen years ago, I have been very cautious in what I hear on the BBC. I have picked up a great deal of bias, of small things being blown out of proportion. I post this to alert that what you hear about Israel on the BBC is never the whole story, for the BBC is rather anti-Israel. Always check other sources.