When the first two words out of the radio speaker are "Donald Trump" (as again, this morning) it feels as though #BBC News has been captured by Lord Haw Haw. Nothing that follows, on any subject, is to be tŕusted. That is because news curated by people who think that of all the events happening all over the World, the appointments by the Orangutan Elect of some nonentity nobody here has ever heard of to the Republican Clown Car tops it all, is worthless.
Dutch Photographer Annet de Graaf talks to Mehdi Hasan about how her footage of Israeli football hooligans going on a rampage in #Amsterdam was purposefully misused and misrepresented by Sky News and #BBC
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Here's how BBC News is covering the election, unaltered screenshot from their sidebar.
They are already not just normalising Trump but turning him into someone to be admired, providing exactly the kind of narcissistic coverage he lives for.
They are also dismissing concerns about a fascist victory as "high emotions".
#Palestine / More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage
The letter highlights several editorial commitments that the #BBC should implement, such as making it clear when there is insufficient evidence to back up #Israeli claims, including regular historical context predating October 2023, and robustly challenging Israeli government and military representatives in all interviews.
The BBC has denied these claims, insisting that it strives to live up to its responsibility to deliver the most trusted and impartial news. However, the signatories of the letter insist that the bias favors Israel, citing examples such as dehumanizing and misleading headlines, omissions of coverage, and a lack of emphasis on Israel's role in certain events.
[…] Other concerns raised by staff include omissions of coverage, such as the failure to live broadcast South
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#Palestine / More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage
The letter highlights several editorial commitments that the #BBC should implement, such as making it clear when there is insufficient evidence to back up #Israeli claims, including regular historical context predating October 2023, and robustly challenging Israeli government and military representatives in all interviews.
The BBC has denied these claims, insisting that it strives to live up to its responsibility to deliver the most trusted and impartial news. However, the signatories of the letter insist that the bias favors Israel, citing examples such as dehumanizing and misleading headlines, omissions of coverage, and a lack of emphasis on Israel's role in certain events.
[…] Other concerns raised by staff include omissions of coverage, such as the failure to live broadcast South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice on 11 January but choosing to live broadcast Israel’s defence the following day.
Reminds me of the #British #BBC factoids program #QI, where they once mentioned that ‘boy’ used to mean ‘servant’ and children of both sexes were called girls. The pic is from Indiatoday, a rather arbitrary secondary source…
