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They are not reporting on anything embarrassing for the west: The Assange Hearings, The attacks on Yemen, Gaza
by Synaesthesia 6y ago
They are not reporting on anything embarrassing for the west: The Assange Hearings, The attacks on Yemen, Gaza
- qz2 6y agoThis is a worrying trend recently. And lets not forget the conduct from Laura Kuenssberg over the last few years.
- hnlmorg 6y agoThey are constantly reporting on embarrassing stories for the west. They might not report every international story happening but even the BBC only have finite resources. However do a search for Yemen or Gaza and you'll see dozens of stories come up. The ironic thing about the BBC is people moan about it from all sides of the debate: it's too left wing or too right wing. There's too many international stories or too many UK-based stories. It seems to me that if everyone thinks the BBC panders to the opposing audience then maybe the BBC are actually serving their impartiality mission correctly. edit: I'm getting downvoted for this but I do regularly compare articles written from different news outlets, the language they used and topics they cover. While the BBC might not be my preferred outlet (eg their stories are a little too dumbed down for my liking), their impartiality is the one thing that should be commended. It always strikes me as ironic that people complain about the BBC having bias when in fact that bias is usually the product of the reader (yes, us consumers will inflect our own biases onto the articles we read just as much as journalists can add their biases into the articles they write).
- ralusek 6y agoWestern media is almost exclusively critical of the west, to the point that one of the most common ways your average western person is misinformed is by thinking that the west is uniquely evil, with few redeeming qualities.
- mpfundstein 6y agoespecially since covid.