Is It Time To Cancel Your TV Licence?

[The_DADDY]

BBC breached own guidelines 1,553 times on Israel, says new report

Research claims BBC journalists repeatedly downplayed Hamas terrorism while presenting Israel as militaristic and aggressive

The BBC violated its own editorial guidelines 1,553 times during the four-month period beginning October 7, 2023, repeatedly downplaying Hamas terrorism and presenting Israel as an aggressor, according to an analysis released over the weekend and reported by the Telegraph.

 

“The findings reveal a deeply worrying pattern of bias and multiple breaches by the BBC of its own editorial guidelines on impartiality, fairness and establishing the truth,” the report said.

 

British lawyer Trevor Asserson, who runs Israel’s largest international law firm, Asserson Law Offices, and who has long campaigned against BBC bias, led the research.

He launched an organisation last week called Campaign for Media Standards to expose bias across UK media.

 

Asserson was joined by a team of about 20 lawyers and 20 data scientists. Artificial intelligence was also used to analyse nine million words of BBC output.

 

According to the report as described in the Telegraph, some journalists used by the BBC to cover the current Israel-Hamas war previously showed sympathy for Hamas and even celebrated its terrorism.

 

Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s international editor, excused Hamas’s terrorist acts and Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s chief international correspondent, downplayed the October 7 attacks on Israel, it claimed, according to the Telegraph.

 

Researchers also analysed the BBC’s coverage of the four months following October 7 to assess its portrayal of war crimes.

 

“Hamas members filmed and publicised themselves committing acts which appear to constitute war crimes,” the report said, including the taking of hostages, wilful killing or murder, torture or inhuman treatment and rape or sexual violence.

 

But despite this, the report’s analysis of BBC coverage found that Israel was associated with war crimes four times more than Hamas (127 versus 30), with genocide 14 times more (283 versus 19) and with breaching international law six times more (167 versus 27).

 

The report censured especially the public broadcaster’s BBC Arabic channel, describing it as one of the most biased of all international media outlets in its coverage of the Gaza war.

 

It noted 11 cases in which BBC Arabic featured reporters who had previously made public statements in support of terrorism and Hamas.

 

Danny Cohen, a former BBC executive, said that there was an “institutional crisis” at the national broadcaster. He called for an independent inquiry into its Gaza war coverage.

 

Your thoughts?

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/bbc-breached-own-guidelines-1-553-times-on-israel-says-new-report-s5jsmz9y

[RJRB]

Not a chance as far as I am concerned.

If we are talking about news items or documentaries then I know of no other single organisation that gives such coverage.

Add to that sport and entertainment all for less than £4 a week I will stick with it thank you and make my own mind up about the content without the help of AI or someone else’s opinions.

[Al Bundy]

Those right wingers at the BBC been at it again!!

[lavery549@yahoo]

Never watch BBC now , can't be doing with it . 

[lavery549@yahoo]

But I cancel my TV License ,it would be my luck , I would get found out & done 🤣

[The_DADDY]

17 minutes ago, RJRB said:

Not a chance as far as I am concerned.

If we are talking about news items or documentaries then I know of no other single organisation that gives such coverage.

Add to that sport and entertainment all for less than £4 a week I will stick with it thank you and make my own mind up about the content without the help of AI or someone else’s opinions.

So you aren't concerned that by not being impartial they breaking their own rules?

 

[The_DADDY]

Just now, lavery549@yahoo said:

But I cancel my TV License ,it would be my luck , I would get found out & done 🤣

Cancelled mine years ago. Maybe 20.

Since then I've had a few visits from 'inspectors' who I trolled for fun.

One guy knocked on and I said 'Me speak no Englee'.

He apologised, went to leave and I said 'Cheers pal, have a good day'.

Boy he was confused. 

I've absolutely no time for these Capita goons so I say Game on if they ever darken my door.

[RJRB]

10 minutes ago, The_DADDY said:

So you aren't concerned that by not being impartial they breaking their own rules?

 

Everyone who has a fixed opinion and disagrees with a point of view can accuse someone of being impartial.

The fact that the BBC gets criticism from all sides suggests that they try to tread the middle ground.

I have followed reports from Jeremy Bowen,and Lyse Doucet as reporters who are actually on the ground and believe that they have called out atrocities equally ,fairly and consistently.

You seem to have the usual confusion between news reporting and news discussions.

I largely believe the “facts” as reported and make my own mind up about what this May mean.

How about you and your second hand sources?

[butlers]

 

 

Jeremy Bowdens ..credits

• 1993 Monte Carlo International TV Festival Silver Nymph for Bosnia war coverage
• RTS Best Breaking News Report 1996 – Best Breaking News report, for his coverage of the assassination of Israel's President Yitzhak Rabin
• Sony Gold award for News Story of the Year on the arrest of Saddam Hussein
• Part of the BBC teams that won a BAFTA for their Kosovo coverage.
• International Emmy 2006 for BBC News, for its coverage, led by Bowen, of the 2006 Lebanon War^[10]
• 2009 Prix Bayeux Calvados for war reporting (Gaza)
• 2010 Charles Wheeler Award for achievements in broadcast journalism
• 2012 Peace Through Media Award at the 8th annual International Media Awards in London.^[42]
• 2012 Prix Bayeux Calvados for war reporting (Syria)
• 2013 Peabody Award for reporting Syria's war
• 2013 News and Documentary Emmy for Syria reporting
• 2013 RTS Specialist Journalist of the Year
• 2014 RTS Television Journalist of the Year
• 2014 BAFTA Cymru Siân Phillips award
• 2015 James Cameron Memorial Award
• 2015 Frontline Club Award for Yemen reporting
• 2016 RTS Interview of the Year for an interview with President Assad of Syria
• 2016 Prix Bayeux Calvados for war reporting

Maybe the  lawyer should concern himself with investigating the undoubted war crimes of the IDF.

 

 

[The_DADDY]

21 minutes ago, RJRB said:

Everyone who has a fixed opinion and disagrees with a point of view can accuse someone of being impartial.

The fact that the BBC gets criticism from all sides suggests that they try to tread the middle ground.

I have followed reports from Jeremy Bowen,and Lyse Doucet as reporters who are actually on the ground and believe that they have called out atrocities equally ,fairly and consistently.

You seem to have the usual confusion between news reporting and news discussions.

I largely believe the “facts” as reported and make my own mind up about what this May mean.

Snipped 

So you aren't  concerned about the BBC breaking its own rules.

Cool