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BBC accused of violating own guidelines 1,500 times in Gaza war coverage.
INN ^ | 08.08.24

Posted on 09/08/2024 3:01:08 AM PDT by Words Matter

Study of coverage of the first 4 months of the war finds serious bias against Israel in BBC reporting, Hamas called a terrorist organization just 3.2% of time. A damning new report accuses the BBC of violating its own editorial guidelines more than 1,500 times during the first four months of the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization, the Telegraph reported. The report, which was led by British lawyer Trevor Asserson, “deeply worrying pattern of bias" against the Jewish State during that period immediately following the massacre of 1,200 people by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. Among the instances of bias, the report found that the BBC associated Israel with "genocide" 14 times more than Hamas, despite Israel's efforts to avoid causing civilian casualties and the genocidal nature of Hamas' stated objectives of wiping out the Jewish population of Israel. Israel was accused of war crimes four times more than Hamas despite the fact that Hamas terrorists filmed themselves committing war crimes. In addition, the term "terrorist organization" was used to describe Hamas only 3.2% of the time, despite Hamas being defined as a terrorist organization by the British government. The BBC's Arabic-language channel was particularly biased against Israel in its reporting and featured reporters who had praised terrorism against Israelis and Hamas without informing viewers of this fact. BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen and international correspondent Lyse Doucet were both accused of downplaying Hamas terrorism, ..

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bbc; britain; england; europe; jeremybowen; lysedoucet; media; mediabias
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1 posted on 09/08/2024 3:01:08 AM PDT by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter
Typical of the MSM the propaganda arm of the democrats.
2 posted on 09/08/2024 4:37:11 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Words Matter

Bigoted
Bullsh-t
Cullions


3 posted on 09/08/2024 4:42:04 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Words Matter

The BBC now has a new leftist approach, “Triple Standards”
That way, when their normal double standards don’t work, they have another pseudo-standard to fall back on.
However, they are closely pursued by our low-T and lower IQ American media, which proudly push the “standard of the minute”.


4 posted on 09/08/2024 5:48:39 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Words Matter

The BBC has always been leftist crap.

But folks have finally had it with being taxed to high heaven for it.

And threatened with prosecution if they watch and refuse to cough up.


5 posted on 09/08/2024 5:50:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!The fans )
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To: mewzilla
Meanwhile, from a month ago...

BBC TV Licensing 'opens investigation' into UK households after 500,000 cancel New figures released last week show the BBC TV Licence fee is now being paid by 500,000 fewer people.

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6 posted on 09/08/2024 5:52:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!The fans )
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To: mewzilla

Indeed


7 posted on 09/08/2024 11:48:16 AM PDT by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter

I guess it’s time to de-platform them.


8 posted on 09/08/2024 11:49:37 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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