... more or less impact from a story. One example of this I have noted is the BBC's quoting of the Whitehouse press secretary on the issue of a Palestinian suicide bombing in October3. According to the official Whitehouse transcript4, press secretary Ari Fleisher stated: "It's another reminder of how it's so important for peace to be pursued and for terror to be stopped." However, the BBC report changed the word "terror" to "violence", changing the whole feel of the story to a less dramatic approach. This reflects the difference in political stance of Britain and the USA, although it is not objective for the media to be taking it upon itself to change quotations and thus altering the facts that the public have access to. As Oscar Wilde once said: "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."5 Possibly the main contributor to lack of objectivity in the media is imbalanced reporting. This ...

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