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Another way to describe this is "lame click bait journalism" by a once great (if biased) news outlet. Crying shame that post-truth is the norm for major news o

Another way to describe this is "lame click bait journalism" by a once great (if biased) news outlet. Crying shame that post-truth is the norm for major news outlets. UK is becoming the US.

Xiol32 3y ago
Which way is it biased?
- dabber 3y ago
  It depends who you ask: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Allegations_of_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Allegatio...
- someotherperson 3y ago
  During the early stages of the Syrian civil war, when there was significant pressure being put on the Western world to directly intervene with boots on the ground, the BBC fabricated a documentary about a napalm attack on a school. This documentary was called "Saving Syria's Children." This featured doctors (and medical staff) being directly linked to Syrian opposition groups[1] (with their voices being dubbed[2], originals still on BBC), actors unintentionally exposing themselves[3], Syrian opposition fighters claiming the attack never took place[4] and when all of this was reported to the BBC they decided to simply memory hole the event and take down the documentary from YouTube, as well as some effort in taking down YouTube videos uploaded by others that feature some of the content. It's worth comparing the footage from the documentary to a historical napalm victim footage[5] from Egypt which shows the severity of napalm attacks in comparison to what we see in the documentary. I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination, and I'm far from being supportive of the Syrian government or unaware of their shocking actions during the conflict, but this entire production was a theatrical construction by the BBC. [0] https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/ https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/ [1] https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#Rola https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#Rola [2] https://youtu.be/puaOvmiyunM?t=39 https://youtu.be/puaOvmiyunM?t=39 [3] https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#Dutch https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#Dutch [4] https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#commander https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#comma... [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS4srZ_iWzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS4srZ_iWzM
elzbardico 3y ago
What did you expect from an article series named “lockdown longreads”?

Another way to describe this is "lame click bait journalism" by a once great (if biased) news outlet. Crying shame that post-truth is the norm for major news outlets. UK is becoming the US.

Xiol32 3y ago

Which way is it biased?

dabber 3y ago
It depends who you ask: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Allegations_of_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Allegatio...
someotherperson 3y ago
During the early stages of the Syrian civil war, when there was significant pressure being put on the Western world to directly intervene with boots on the ground, the BBC fabricated a documentary about a napalm attack on a school. This documentary was called "Saving Syria's Children." This featured doctors (and medical staff) being directly linked to Syrian opposition groups[1] (with their voices being dubbed[2], originals still on BBC), actors unintentionally exposing themselves[3], Syrian opposition fighters claiming the attack never took place[4] and when all of this was reported to the BBC they decided to simply memory hole the event and take down the documentary from YouTube, as well as some effort in taking down YouTube videos uploaded by others that feature some of the content. It's worth comparing the footage from the documentary to a historical napalm victim footage[5] from Egypt which shows the severity of napalm attacks in comparison to what we see in the documentary. I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination, and I'm far from being supportive of the Syrian government or unaware of their shocking actions during the conflict, but this entire production was a theatrical construction by the BBC. [0] https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/ https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/ [1] https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#Rola https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#Rola [2] https://youtu.be/puaOvmiyunM?t=39 https://youtu.be/puaOvmiyunM?t=39 [3] https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#Dutch https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#Dutch [4] https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#commander https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/#comma... [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS4srZ_iWzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS4srZ_iWzM

elzbardico 3y ago

What did you expect from an article series named “lockdown longreads”?