Wednesday 20 April 2011

U.S Jets Strike on Libyan sites. NATO is responsible.







Last week, three Libyan anti-aircraft sites were bombed by U.S military aircrafts, during the night. U.S military officials and the Pentagon told NBC News that, after handing the mission to NATO, U.S jets have continued striking Libyan sites. Both also streesed that it was the third strike in the past week.
Most of the anti-aircraft sites have been destroyed, but lots of Libyan anti-aircraft launchers were still hidden, until Gadhafi's forces repositioned them, to pose a threat to NATO's aircrafts.

According to a senior official, these jets have been part of the mission since the handoff in April 4th. He said they forgot to mention it.
Within this omission from NATO and the US military forces, lots of jet,ammunition, weaponry and else might be hidden. Until this situation, nobody knew about this "backup" supplies for NATO's troop son Libya.

Neither US nor NATO assume the responsability upon this subject, and they insist that this jet are only assigned to the "no-fly zones", and that these have not been part of any strike upon Libyan sites. They also added that these jet are allowed to fire on any enemy defenses as part of this assignment on the "no-fly zones".

Friday 8 April 2011

News Bias

News Title:   Russian-born scientist Win Nobel for GRAPHENE

Source :      Russian-born Scientists Win Nobel for Graphene

Main points:
  • Two Russian-born scientist, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, won the 2010 Nobel Physics Prize
  • Graphene, the material found, might be the "green material" that scientists have been looking for

Bias Detected:


Bias by word choice - DICTION:

"[...]next generation super material[...]"

Bias throught names and titles:

"...laureates began their careers as physicists in Russia but now work at the University of Manchester in Britain..."


Bias through Statistics:
"[...]10 million Swedish kronor ($1.49 million, 1.09 million euros)[...]