Post by Teddy Bear on Apr 9, 2010 22:37:23 GMT
Robin Shepherd gives an excellent analysis on the insidious way the BBC covers anything to do with Israel. I am also very pleased to note that Robin is also using our logo with his article, to which he's more than welcome to do.
A Case Study in Propaganda: A day in the life of the BBC campaign against Israel
Here is a list of all of the headlines about Israel which are up on the BBC website’s MidEast section right now:
“Netanyahu cancels US nuclear trip”
“Israel lifts espionage gag order”
“Israel is a ‘threat’ says Turkey”
“Jail for Israeli Arab ‘gym spy’”
“Israel blames troops for deaths”
There are also two features about Israel on the same page. Here are the headlines:
“Thais labouring on Israel’s farms”
“Jerusalem Diary: Cairo views”
Someone should do a larger study. But today’s evidence is clear. Every single article paints Israel in a negative or problematic light. One, quite nonchalantly, gives a voice to Holocaust denial. None paints the Palestinians in a negative light in any way shape or form.
That is quite an achievement in a week when the Jerusalem Post — a paper freely available to BBC editors on the internet — has run a story with the following headline:
“Israel slams naming of Ramallah street after arch-terrorist”
That story comes hard on the heels of a decision in March by the same “moderate” Palestinian Authority to celebrate the worst terrorist atrocity ever perpetrated inside Israel (the 1978 bus massacres which left 38 dead including 13 children) by naming a central square in Ramallah after its perpetrator, Dalal Mughrabi.
The BBC refused to cover that story too.
This is not journalism. It’s agitprop. And it’s got to stop.
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Please feel free to verify of all this by clicking on the BBC website here. All of the above was correct at 0830 GMT today.
Here is a list of all of the headlines about Israel which are up on the BBC website’s MidEast section right now:
“Netanyahu cancels US nuclear trip”
“Israel lifts espionage gag order”
“Israel is a ‘threat’ says Turkey”
“Jail for Israeli Arab ‘gym spy’”
“Israel blames troops for deaths”
There are also two features about Israel on the same page. Here are the headlines:
“Thais labouring on Israel’s farms”
“Jerusalem Diary: Cairo views”
Someone should do a larger study. But today’s evidence is clear. Every single article paints Israel in a negative or problematic light. One, quite nonchalantly, gives a voice to Holocaust denial. None paints the Palestinians in a negative light in any way shape or form.
That is quite an achievement in a week when the Jerusalem Post — a paper freely available to BBC editors on the internet — has run a story with the following headline:
“Israel slams naming of Ramallah street after arch-terrorist”
That story comes hard on the heels of a decision in March by the same “moderate” Palestinian Authority to celebrate the worst terrorist atrocity ever perpetrated inside Israel (the 1978 bus massacres which left 38 dead including 13 children) by naming a central square in Ramallah after its perpetrator, Dalal Mughrabi.
The BBC refused to cover that story too.
This is not journalism. It’s agitprop. And it’s got to stop.
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Please feel free to verify of all this by clicking on the BBC website here. All of the above was correct at 0830 GMT today.