BBC and World Media Ignore Rocket Attacks on Israel, but Report on IDF Responses

[shira]

Because Israel must be the aggressor, Hamas the victim. IOW, Hamasbara....

...The BBC News English-language website did not provide any coverage of the missile attack against Israeli civilians.

The BBC Arabic website, however, produced two reports — here and here — about the Israeli response to the missile fire. The second report and the website’s homepage both used a photograph of a water tower allegedly damaged during the Israeli response to the missile attack.

However, as noted at the Israellycool blog, photographs showing the same damage to the same water tower were published by AFP nearly a year ago.

This latest missile attack from the Gaza Strip is the eighth such incident to have taken place so far in 2016. The BBC has not reported on any of those attacks on its English-language website, but has covered the Israeli response to most of them on its Arabic-language site.

...The same pattern of reporting has been evident since the end of the conflict between Israel and terrorists in the Gaza Strip in 2014, meaning that English-speaking BBC audiences — including its funding public — are not receiving the services pledged to them in the corporation’s public purposes.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/08/23/bbc-and-world-media-ignore-rocket-attacks-on-israel-but-report-on-idf-responses/

[Little Tich]

1. Interestingly, the Beeb has a noticeable anti-Israel bias, but I don't find it strong enough to

distort their reporting.

It's quite possible that the widespread destruction the IDF is causing in Gaza is considered more newsworthy than rockets that cause no damage. There is simply no equivalence between the armed groups in Gaza and the IDF.

As for the water tower, Isreallycool is not even remotely a trustworthy source. I suppose we'll know the truth soon enough anyway.

[shira]

2. The 2015 Dishonest Reporter of the Year: Why the BBC Won

At any given time, the insidious nature of the BBC’s anti-Israel bias is its constant drip, drip effect. But this year, the pipes burst with some genuinely shocking moments of coverage that generated a huge amount of anger and offense.

Here are nine of the ‘highlights’ that secured the BBC’s position as the worst news service of 2015....

http://honestreporting.com/the-2015-dishonest-reporter-of-the-year-why-the-bbc-won/

[shira]

3. BBC has shown 'inexcusable bias' on Israel, says its former chairman Michael Grade

The BBC is facing a new row over its coverage of Israel, after former chairman Michael Grade accused the broadcaster of an ‘inexcusable’ bias. Lord Grade claimed that the BBC ‘directly misled’ viewers in a report about the recent wave of stabbing attacks on Israelis, by failing to show militant Palestinian groups praising the attacks.

Over the last two months, seven Israelis have been killed and dozens have been wounded in a shooting, a stoning and a series of stakbbings. At least 40 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including several identified by Israel as attackers. But in a letter to BBC director of news James Harding, Lord Grade accused the BBC of drawing unfair comparisons between the Israeli victims of terrorism, and Palestinians terrorists who had been killed by Israeli forces trying to stop them.

It created an ‘equivalence between Israeli victims of terrorism and Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli security forces in the act of carrying out terror attacks,’ he said. Lord Grade also argued that the controversial report ‘directly misled’ viewers by telling them there was ‘no sign of involvement by militant groups’ in the latest attacks – then confusing them with footage of militants’ banners hanging outside the house of a known terrorist.

more...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3283850/BBC-shown-inexcusable-bias-Israel-says-former-chairman-Michael-Grade.html