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More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage (Independent, 2024-11-01)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bbc-israel-gaza-letter-tim-davie-bias-palestine-b2636737.html
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(Link to the “Letter for Gaza”
https://substack.com/inbox/post/151024243?utm%5C_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true )

“More than 100 BBC employees are accusing the corporation of providing favourable coverage toward Israel and are calling on the broadcaster to ‘recommit to fairness, accuracy, and impartiality’ over its reporting on Gaza.

“In a letter sent to Tim Davie, signed by more than 230 members of the media industry, including 101 anonymous BBC staff, the corporation is criticised for failing its own editorial standards by lacking ‘consistently fair and accurate evidence-based journalism in its coverage of Gaza’”.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Haha I remember when the BBC "accidentally" mistranslated Musharaf saying "We require nuclear weapons for deterrence" to "God has commanded us to make the nuclear bomb".

Actually now that I think about it, the BBC lies alot. Like not even bias, I mean full fledged misinformation sometimes.

[–] zante@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 days ago

State apparatus

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

But, but, but ... the propaganda bot here keeps telling us the BBC is Leftwing.

How could they be Leftwing and have a bias in favour of ethno-Fascists, the farthest Far-Right there is?

Surely the BBC employees are wrong!!!

[–] 01011@monero.town 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You cannot be leftwing and pro-monarchy.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I lived in the UK back during Brexit and the only people who said that "the BBC is Leftwing" were the English Far-Right - in fact that kind of stuff started (or at least became "mainstream" enough to be noticeable) at around that time and then was picked up by the Far-Right populist side of the Tory Party during the Leave Referendum.

They're a posh kind of Rightwing, so far more subtle than loudmouths like Farage, Boris Johnson and Trump, but it didn't take me long after coming to live in the UK (a decade before Brexit) to notice how much to the Right they were (not even Center-Right) from their fawning coverage of the Monarchy, almost invariably positive spin on the "upper" classes and the ultra-wealthy and heavy nationalist take on all foreign affairs (they almost invariably spinned it as "other countries are listening to Britain" when the same news in foreign media barely if at all mentioned Britain).

Certainly the core message from the BBC was always that "the System is good as it is, be proud of it" and "don't make waves", in a country which is highly unequal and has pretty low Social Mobility when compared to the rest of Europe.

Also remember how, well before they had any meaningful impact, the likes of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson got way more airtime in the BBC than, say, the leader of the Greenparty.

Brexit didn't happen by chance: the fields were Far-Right Nationalism flourished had been long plowed by amongst others the BBC.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

So many people conflate BBC's news with its comedies

The shows tend to be leftwing. The news does shit like this: —

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago
[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

MediaBiasFactChecker bot knew all along

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago

Water accused of being wet.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 3 days ago

Right or wrong, I used to consider BBC to be one of the less biased news sources, at least compared to U.S. news outlets.

Well, they may still be less biased comparatively, but that is a very low bar.