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This paints a pretty awful picture of the BBC in other areas: https://archive.is/mBcPq https://archive.is/mBcPq

• foldr 11mo ago
  So does this: https://cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-israel-one-story-double-standards/ https://cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-israel-one-story-double-stan... It’s quite a fun game to match every accusation of BBC bias with its exact opposite. That’s not to say that BBC reporting is perfect and that no individual criticisms are valid. But the BBC simply could not report on Israel/Palestine at all without being accused of bias in all directions. Show me the media organization whose reporting on this issue is agreed to be unbiased by all relevant parties. (Also little ironic to link to a Telegraph article, of all things, while complaining about media bias. On anyone’s analysis, the Telegraph is a vastly more partisan media organization than the BBC.)
  • johng 11mo ago
    If you read the article they are listing things that the BBC itself concluded and cites specific examples. Ignore who wrote the article or even the article itself and just look at what BBC itself found. Also note it's about BBC Arabic in comparison to regular BBC.
    • foldr 11mo ago
      I’m sure the BBC gets lots of stuff wrong in its news coverage, just like any other news organization you could name. But if we’re talking about systemic bias in reporting on the Israel/Palestine conflict, it’s worth noting that “both sides” (much as I hate this expression) frequently claim that the BBC is biased against them. The whole issue is so contentious that it’s highly unlikely that any major news organization will escape criticisms of bias. Again, I wonder if you can name a different major news organization that regularly reports on Israel/Palestine and that nobody considers to have any bias in its reporting.
      • johng 11mo ago
        I agree with you that they all have bias. However, as the article points out... this is an egregious bias by it's own sister publication. So, it is unique in that it all falls under the same roof and it's being called out by itself.
        • foldr 11mo ago
          That’s unique in a good way, no? Would it be better if the BBC were incapable of self critique?
          • db48x 11mo ago
            I’ll give them +10 points for hiring somebody to measure their own accuracy, and −100 points for ignoring their reports and broadcasting deliberate lies anyway.
            • foldr 11mo ago
              Who are you comparing the BBC to? I can’t think of a news service of comparable scope that clearly has a better track record when it comes to accuracy. The edit of Trump’s speech in that one documentary was indeed misleading, but it’s being blown out of all proportion here. Meanwhile, the President who is a stickler for news accuracy and wants to sue the BBC for a billion dollars is busy broadcasting libelous nonsense to his Twitter followers on a daily basis (e.g. the absurd claim that Barack Obama has been receiving millions in Obamacare “royalties”). The hypocrisy would be astounding if we weren’t already so used to it.
              • db48x 11mo ago
                Excusing the BBC for lying just because other people are lying too doesn’t really work.
                • foldr 11mo ago
                  I'm not excusing the BBC for broadcasting a documentary with a misleading edit of Trump's speech. They've rightly admitted their error in that respect. This is a politically motivated attack on the BBC by people who, as referenced above, don't care a jot for accuracy in news reporting. By combing through the BBC's enormous output they have, unsurprisingly enough, managed to find one or two legitimate grievances.