Zionazi
2024-09-11 07:14:16 UTC
Translated via google:
"In the past, Mena-Watch has repeatedly reported on how biased and
sometimes downright hostile the British TV station BBC's reports about
Israel are. An analysis published over the weekend systematically shows
that in the four months after October 7, the BBC breached its own
policies 1,553 times by downplaying Hamas terrorism and portraying
Israel as the aggressor.
The findings reveal a deeply disturbing pattern of bias and multiple
breaches by the BBC of its own editorial policies on impartiality,
fairness and truth-telling," said the investigation, which was widely
reported by the British newspaper The Telegraph.
British lawyer Trevor Asserson, who has long campaigned against the bias
of the BBC in particular and recently founded an organization called the
Campaign for Media Standards to expose the subjective reporting of the
British media in general, led the study; supported by a team of around
twenty lawyers and data scientists.
Artificial intelligence was used to analyze nine million words of BBC
news. It emerged that BBC journalists repeatedly downplayed Hamas'
terrorism and portrayed Israel as militaristic and aggressive,
unilaterally accusing it of war crimes, breaches of international law
and even genocide. During the study period, Israel was four times more
likely to be associated with war crimes than Hamas (127/30), six times
more likely to be associated with violations of international law
(167/27) and fourteen times more likely to be associated with genocide
(283/19).
Some journalists used by the BBC to cover the current war between Israel
and Hamas had previously expressed sympathy for Hamas and even
celebrated its terrorism, the report said. For example, BBC
international journalist Jeremy Bowen excused the Hamas acts of terror
by comparing Israel to Russia and its war of aggression against Ukraine,
while the broadcaster's chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet,
downplayed the attacks on Israel.
The report particularly criticizes the BBC's Arabic channel, which is
described as one of the most partisan of all international media outlets
in its reporting on the Gaza war. The analysis notes eleven cases in
which BBC Arabic used reporters for its reports who had previously
publicly expressed their support for terrorism, and Hamas in particular.
BBC Arabic reporter Mayssaa Abdul Khalek, who lives in Lebanon, is
quoted as calling for the "death of Israel" and tweeting: "Mr. Hitler,
rise up, there are a few people who need to be burned." Marie-Jose Al
Azzi, another Lebanon-based employee, described Israel as a “terrorist
apartheid state.”
..
After the October 7, 2023 massacre, the BBC was criticized for failing
to label Hamas members as "terrorists." At the end of October, the
broadcaster said it would describe Hamas as a "banned terrorist
organization" "wherever possible." However, the now published report
showed that Hamas was described as a "banned", "classified" or
"recognized" terrorist organization in only 409 of 12,459 mentions - and
thus in 3.2 percent of the cases - in the four months examined.
..
Former Labor minister Ian Austin accused the BBC of "high-handed
arrogance" for continually rejecting criticism of its impartiality.
Conservative Friends of Israel honorary chairman Stuart Polak said there
was “a clear pattern. Other broadcasters have made mistakes too, but the
BBC keeps getting it wrong. It's shameful, it's wrong and what's worse,
the BBC knows it."
..
This was also demanded by Laurence Julius, deputy leader of the National
Jewish Assembly: “The BBC, as the most influential media company in the
world with a global audience of over five hundred million people,
including influential thought leaders, has a duty to report news without
bias or distortion and context to explain. The BBC has failed miserably
in encouraging anti-Israel and anti-Semitic reporting across its
network. “That has to change.”"
Read it on:
https://www.mena-watch.com/bbc-israelberichterstattung-gegen-richtlinien/
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Telegraph article:
"BBC ‘breached guidelines 1,500 times’ over Israel-Hamas war"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/07/bbc-breached-guidelines-more-1500-times-israel-hamas-war/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFLpBBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZGpHsqkVnT85w2zLhSVNF8PLe0gmbG33eIXsicSkbh6VroATmaqpHeWQA_aem_87CkUumABW4L-pdpkoKteQ
The Asserson report:
https://campaignformediastandards.org.uk/asserson-report.pdf
The summary of the Asserson report:
https://campaignformediastandards.org.uk/asserson-summary.pdf
----
"In the past, Mena-Watch has repeatedly reported on how biased and
sometimes downright hostile the British TV station BBC's reports about
Israel are. An analysis published over the weekend systematically shows
that in the four months after October 7, the BBC breached its own
policies 1,553 times by downplaying Hamas terrorism and portraying
Israel as the aggressor.
The findings reveal a deeply disturbing pattern of bias and multiple
breaches by the BBC of its own editorial policies on impartiality,
fairness and truth-telling," said the investigation, which was widely
reported by the British newspaper The Telegraph.
British lawyer Trevor Asserson, who has long campaigned against the bias
of the BBC in particular and recently founded an organization called the
Campaign for Media Standards to expose the subjective reporting of the
British media in general, led the study; supported by a team of around
twenty lawyers and data scientists.
Artificial intelligence was used to analyze nine million words of BBC
news. It emerged that BBC journalists repeatedly downplayed Hamas'
terrorism and portrayed Israel as militaristic and aggressive,
unilaterally accusing it of war crimes, breaches of international law
and even genocide. During the study period, Israel was four times more
likely to be associated with war crimes than Hamas (127/30), six times
more likely to be associated with violations of international law
(167/27) and fourteen times more likely to be associated with genocide
(283/19).
Some journalists used by the BBC to cover the current war between Israel
and Hamas had previously expressed sympathy for Hamas and even
celebrated its terrorism, the report said. For example, BBC
international journalist Jeremy Bowen excused the Hamas acts of terror
by comparing Israel to Russia and its war of aggression against Ukraine,
while the broadcaster's chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet,
downplayed the attacks on Israel.
The report particularly criticizes the BBC's Arabic channel, which is
described as one of the most partisan of all international media outlets
in its reporting on the Gaza war. The analysis notes eleven cases in
which BBC Arabic used reporters for its reports who had previously
publicly expressed their support for terrorism, and Hamas in particular.
BBC Arabic reporter Mayssaa Abdul Khalek, who lives in Lebanon, is
quoted as calling for the "death of Israel" and tweeting: "Mr. Hitler,
rise up, there are a few people who need to be burned." Marie-Jose Al
Azzi, another Lebanon-based employee, described Israel as a “terrorist
apartheid state.”
..
After the October 7, 2023 massacre, the BBC was criticized for failing
to label Hamas members as "terrorists." At the end of October, the
broadcaster said it would describe Hamas as a "banned terrorist
organization" "wherever possible." However, the now published report
showed that Hamas was described as a "banned", "classified" or
"recognized" terrorist organization in only 409 of 12,459 mentions - and
thus in 3.2 percent of the cases - in the four months examined.
..
Former Labor minister Ian Austin accused the BBC of "high-handed
arrogance" for continually rejecting criticism of its impartiality.
Conservative Friends of Israel honorary chairman Stuart Polak said there
was “a clear pattern. Other broadcasters have made mistakes too, but the
BBC keeps getting it wrong. It's shameful, it's wrong and what's worse,
the BBC knows it."
..
This was also demanded by Laurence Julius, deputy leader of the National
Jewish Assembly: “The BBC, as the most influential media company in the
world with a global audience of over five hundred million people,
including influential thought leaders, has a duty to report news without
bias or distortion and context to explain. The BBC has failed miserably
in encouraging anti-Israel and anti-Semitic reporting across its
network. “That has to change.”"
Read it on:
https://www.mena-watch.com/bbc-israelberichterstattung-gegen-richtlinien/
----
Telegraph article:
"BBC ‘breached guidelines 1,500 times’ over Israel-Hamas war"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/07/bbc-breached-guidelines-more-1500-times-israel-hamas-war/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFLpBBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZGpHsqkVnT85w2zLhSVNF8PLe0gmbG33eIXsicSkbh6VroATmaqpHeWQA_aem_87CkUumABW4L-pdpkoKteQ
The Asserson report:
https://campaignformediastandards.org.uk/asserson-report.pdf
The summary of the Asserson report:
https://campaignformediastandards.org.uk/asserson-summary.pdf
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