David Herman
The Article, Sept. 11, 2024
“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.”
Over the past year and more I have written a number of pieces for The Article about BBC bias against Israel. I make no apology for returning to this subject. First, few people – and no one currently at the BBC – have addressed this serious problem. Second, it is of huge importance to anyone concerned with the state of British broadcasting and the BBC, in particular. The BBC has an international reputation, often well deserved in the past, for its thoughtful and impartial news reporting and this matters enormously in countries around the world where there is little access to a free press. Thirdly, the BBC’s biased coverage of Israel is in the news. Not on the BBC, of course, but elsewhere.
In the Sunday Telegraph this was their lead story. The headline read, “BBC ‘has breached rules 1,500 times’ over Gaza war”. This is an astonishing headline and if anyone is actually running BBC news any longer — and it’s not clear that anyone is — they should hang their heads in shame. The article by Camilla Turner and Patrick Sawer begins, “The BBC breached its own guidelines more than 1,500 times during the height of the Israel-Hamas war, a damning report has found.”
The article continues, “The report revealed a ‘deeply worrying pattern of bias’ against Israel, according to its authors who analysed four months of BBC’s output [beginning on October 7 2023] across television, radio, online news, podcasts and social media.”
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