Post by Teddy Bear on Nov 25, 2012 19:12:50 GMT
I commented on Nigel Farage's reply to the question 'Who's Wrong - Hamas or Israel?' on last week's Question Time.
BBC Watch responds to Owen Jones' twisted diatribe on the same question. I cold have predicted his rant seeing how he has covered other subjects for the BBC in the past.
BBC Watch responds to Owen Jones' twisted diatribe on the same question. I cold have predicted his rant seeing how he has covered other subjects for the BBC in the past.
BBC’s ‘Question Time’ features uninterrupted anti-Israel misinformation
The November 22nd 2012 edition of the BBC’s ‘Question Time’, which raised much controversy, is available here for UK viewers only.
The part of the programme which – judging from our inbox – many found offensive and objectionable was the two minute and eighteen second uninterrupted diatribe of lies, misrepresentation and distortions by ‘The Independent’ columnist Owen Jones.
It is one thing to promote ‘robust debate’ between differing viewpoints – an essential part of any democratic society.
It is quite another for an institution charged with making sure it “gives information about, and increases understanding of, the world through accurate and impartial news, other information, and analysis of current events and ideas” to allow a torrent of misinformation to pass without correction by the BBC presenter managing the debate.
In order to understand the significance of the BBC’s inaction in this and many other cases of anti-Israel propaganda being passed off as ‘opinion’, it is sufficient to see who is now promoting the BBC-sanitized clip above – some examples here, here and here.
The November 22nd 2012 edition of the BBC’s ‘Question Time’, which raised much controversy, is available here for UK viewers only.
The part of the programme which – judging from our inbox – many found offensive and objectionable was the two minute and eighteen second uninterrupted diatribe of lies, misrepresentation and distortions by ‘The Independent’ columnist Owen Jones.
It is one thing to promote ‘robust debate’ between differing viewpoints – an essential part of any democratic society.
It is quite another for an institution charged with making sure it “gives information about, and increases understanding of, the world through accurate and impartial news, other information, and analysis of current events and ideas” to allow a torrent of misinformation to pass without correction by the BBC presenter managing the debate.
In order to understand the significance of the BBC’s inaction in this and many other cases of anti-Israel propaganda being passed off as ‘opinion’, it is sufficient to see who is now promoting the BBC-sanitized clip above – some examples here, here and here.