I very rarely get time to read the Ulster Nation emails I get on a daily basis, but I happened to glance through today's and came across this article from the "Irish American Information Service" which provides "up-to-the-minute objective coverage of news as it happens in Ireland and the North." I laughed when I saw the "and the North" there, until I noticed the word 'objective' .

In my previous entry I posted about the arrest of a Sinn Fein member for questioning over the Claudy bomb which killed 9 people (including children) in 1972, when no warning was given about the impending explosion. How did their 'objective coverage' relay that story? "PSNI MEMBERS INTENT ON UNDERMINING PROCESS SAYS ADAMS" Objective, eh?

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The actual arrest and the alleged crime (and the fact there are now 9 families grieving for innocent relatives) are given 2 lines in the 2nd paragraph, and the rest of the story revolves around Gerry Adams waffling on about "political policing" and other nonsense (sounds like the title for a children's book that). In Northern Ireland most normal people laugh to themselves and think "here we go again" when they hear Adams spouting that tripe - but this would seem to indicate that in the wider world people actually buy the bullshit. Scary.

It's to counter this sort of blatantly biased reporting on Northern Ireland nonsense that I set up Everything Ulster in the first place - and the likes of this article seem to vindicate that famous 'seige mentality' so often spoken of. I'm sure far more people will read the IASA site than will read EU, but if it helps in any small way it will have been worth it. Unlike the IASA I openly admit I have an agenda (admittedly usually at the back of my mind) when I'm posting and don't claim to be objective. As far as I'm concerned a similar admission from the IASA would be necessary before their reporting deserved even a modicum credibility.