BBC World / BBC Arabic : the showdown

I am sitting in the basement of the University of Indonesia dormitory, Depok, Jakarta. Couldn't survive more than half a day with no internet access...
I wish you could see the room - it's, well, a basement, with 10 computers and people sit on the floor. About 10 young college students - freshmen, they look - around me are clicking, sitting two at each computer. There is a sticker stuck on each screen by the manager of the 'net cafe' with the 'friendster' website address... little unexpected for an educative institution :)
Hey, can't complain, and despite the fact that it works on windows 95 -- it must be the only living specimen -- and the screen is flickering, its colours changing from white to yellow... Oh, and it's dial-up.
I am just too much of a damn pampered consultant who got used to broadband in civil war areas that he finds dial-up unusual... hmmm. That's not good :-S


First thing I checked: BBC news. In english and in arabic. There is a bit of discrepency here... well the BBC arabic's homepage is mainly the BBC international Middle East news page translated -- but there are a few differences...
For instance, the english website has had for the last 4 days this piece of news
stuck on the top right of the page: "Family in rocket-hit Haifa seek sanctuary of bomb shelter" . Hmmm. interesting choice of news. I absolutely feel for all the people under siege, on both sides of the border. No one should live in fear. Maybe that's one of war's most disgusting aspects: fear. Fear of being killed, hurt. And worse, fear for the people you love. Doubly worse: if those people you love are on the frontline - army soldiers, or civilians in heavy fighting areas.


I'm just curious about why this is the piece of news they chose to give a permanent link on the homepage, that's all... Maybe because there is actively nothing very 'interesting' (in a journalistic meaning) in Israel: some rockets falling, mainly no one injured.
Journalists are funny people.

The headline now on bbc english is about the new israeli raid preparing, but, my oh my, according to BBC arabic, they're already in!! "The Israeli army conducts 'precise incursions' in Lebanon".

Ladies and gentlemen, for those who didnt know yet: they're in!!!