Downer on Lebanon reporting

Again and again, if you want to hear public officials daring to state the uncomfortable (for some) obvious, you have to go to Australia. Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer:

What concerns me greatly is the evidence of dishonesty in the reporting out of Lebanon and the tendency to report every casualty on the Lebanese side of the conflict as a civilian casualty, despite indisputable evidence that many of the injured from the Israeli offensive were Hezbollah combatants.

Via Instapundit