One-sided news coverage is a danger to journalists.

There is extensive coverage on the BBC of the assault on Aleppo in Syria by government forces of Bashar al-Assad, supported by Iran, Hezbollah and Russian air power. Assad is of the Alawi branch of Islam, Iran and Hezbollah are Shia, while the population of Aleppo are largely Sunni. A report by Lyse Doucet this morning showed blood and discarded sandals on a road, and a young man crying that his mother and sisters had been killed at that spot by 2 bombs. Curiously, there seemed to be no crater to mark the explosions. The Syrian army may have used some kind of Daisy Cutter. The UN Humanitarian Affairs Chief, Stephen O'Brien, sounds Irish, feared for Aleppo,"For the sake of humanity we call on - we plead - with the parties and those with influence to do everything in their power to protect civilians and enable access to the besieged part of eastern Aleppo before it becomes one giant graveyard." As an aside, he added that "non-state actors" were preventing civilians from fleeing, which means that the rebels were using them as 'human shields'. Strangely, BBC shows no picture of blood on the streets of Mosul and no UN fellow in anguish at the suffering of civilians, when exactly the same events are taking place there. In Mosul the Shia government of Iraq, supported by Iran, Iraqi Shia militia and US air power are pounding the 1.5 million Sunni population, a large section of whom are without water. "We're facing a humanitarian catastrophe," said Hussam al-Abar."Basic services such as water, electricity, health, food are non-existent." Government soldiers in Iraq are knee-capping children in Mosul with hammers in, revenge for their own cowardly flight in blind panic 2 years ago. Russia and the West are equally brutal but the news coverage is very one sided, which makes it propaganda. Why is the BBC so concerned about Syria? Because of the fear of a flood of refugees from there. The European Union Parliament in Brussels has voted to suspend talks with Turkey towards Turkey's accession to the EU. In response Turkey's President, Erdogan has threatened to allow a flood of migrants into Europe. Killing Gaddafi of Libya was an act of monumental stupidity, especially after seeing the mess in Iraq, caused by the removal of Saddam Hussein. Russian athletes were banned from the summer Olympics this year for doping. But when a group of hackers revealed that the majority of British and US athletes were taking banned substances it was covered up on medical grounds. That is called state sponsored doping. An article exposes how the New York Times manufactured 'news'. The danger with one-sided reporting is that journalists will be seen as propaganda agents and become targets themselves. Remember Lord Haw Haw?