THE BBC'S OWN DEFENSE CORRESPONDENT: Assails the anti-war spin of the Beeb's own coverage. In a leaked memo, Paul Adams blasts his own editors. This story is from The Sun:

On Monday, [Adams] wrote from US Central Command in Qatar:

"I was gobsmacked to hear, in a set of headlines today, that the coalition was suffering significant casualties. This is simply NOT TRUE. Nor is it true to say, as the same intro stated, that coalition forces are fighting guerrillas. It may be guerrilla warfare, but they are not guerrillas."

Adams memo was fired off to TV news head Roger Mosey, Radio news boss Stephen Mitchell and other Beeb chiefs. It adds stunning weight to allegations that BBC coverage on all its networks is biased against the war.

In one blast, he storms:
"Who dreamed up the line that the coalition are achieving small victories at a very high price? The truth is exactly the opposite. The gains are huge and the costs still relatively low. This is real warfare, however one-sided, and losses are to be expected."

The BBC has come under attack for describing the loss of two soldiers as "the worst possible news" for the armed forces. "

It makes Katie Couric look benign. Of course, some of this is due to the hyped expectations for the war which the administration didn't do enough in advance to quell. But that doesn't explain all of it.
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