[Media-watch] RE: Report "Video claims to show downing of

[neil scott]

Subject:  RE: Report "Video claims to show downing of


From:  "Parker-Jervis, George" <George.Parker-Jervis at itn.co.uk>  
To:  "neil scott" <theteacher at elmacdesign.co.uk>
Date:  02/01/2005 01:45 PM
Subject:  RE: Report "Video claims to show downing of UK plane, "  posted at 
7.47PM Mon Jan 31 2005


Thanks for your note. I cannot look back and investigate the site to know 
for sure what we had at that time, as the story has been updated many times 
since then. But I accept your point that the sentence needs some 
qualification - "of UK armed forces", for instance. I'm afraid that my 
producer failed to add these words. We'll try to be more careful in future.
Yours sincerely
George Parker-Jervis
Head of ITV News Online
-----Original Message-----
From: neil scott [mailto:theteacher at elmacdesign.co.uk] 
Sent: 31 January 2005 23:05
To: Editor Online
Subject: Report "Video claims to show downing of UK plane," posted at 7.47PM 
Mon Jan 31 2005


Sir-
 
In a story on your website entitled "Video claims to show downing of UK 
plane,"  posted at  7.47PM, Mon Jan 31 2005 the following lines were 
included:
 
"A military source said the death toll is "around ten", and "highly 
unlikely" to be more than 15. If so, it would be the biggest single loss of 
life since the start of the war in March 2003."
 
I object to the second sentence.  I believe you are referring to loss of 
British lives rather than all lives lost in the war.  There have been many 
instances of more lives lost than 10-15 amongst the Iraqi population.
 
Your reporter should be more careful when making such claims as these sort 
of statements can be interpreted as holding one nationality's life more 
valuable than another.
 
Neil Scott
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