A barrage of 50 rockets and mortar shells is launched at Israel from Gaza. Three serious military assaults are made against the border between Gaza and Israel. What’s the one and only story on the BBC? Someone videotaped some settlers allegedly beating up some Palestinians, with sticks.
Is the Middle-East bureau at the BBC run by complete, or just useful, idiots?
We’re busy.
When you think BBC, just think FNC but with blindness in the opposite eye.
You forgot to say there was an alleged barrage of 50 rockets and mortar shells…
No one else is reporting this barrage either so far as I can see. So fuck those anti-semite commies at Drudge, the Washington Times and the Jerusalem Post (the latter mentioning yesterday’s barrage).
Except the BBC, who mention Hamas are claiming they have done so today.
As of now on the BBC Middle East news site, there are several stories about the explosion and subsequent rocket attacks. The story is developing. There’s a story about Israel denying involvement in the explosion and Hamas claiming that they were involved, but investigating. That story mentions other incidents and gives background. Then there’s a later story that says Hamas caused the explosion whilst preparing for an attack and initially tried to blame Israel.
And various other stories about Israel, Hamas, Jordan, the UAE, etc. The “settlers with sticks” story is one of about 40.
Do you sit there waiting for the BBC to rile you up **mks57 **? Your complaint is poor.
I saw that story on BBC’s “World News Show” yesterday, and I was pretty astonished at the unquestioning acceptance of the story as fact. The BBC dropped a clanger, with this one.
There was no critical analysis of the story what so ever. No questioning who had made the tape, nor was there any analysis into who had held possession of it before the BBC. The camera work was ridiculously bad—you could barely make anything out! The men were masked, with no indication at all that they were Jewish, and of the attack, the only thing we saw was brief glimpses of a skirmish at a distance (due to the bad camera work).
It was provided by an Israeli group documenting these attacks, which are not unusual.
Etc etc etc. Settler violence is a common issue.
So your ‘skepticism’ is nothing but ideological or ignorance-driven hand-waving.
Wasn’t there an air attack on Palestine last week? It is so hard to keep track. Sort of a 'dog bites man" thing. This stuff is rarely noteworthy.
Here it is, seems a house in Palestine blew up and everyone assumed it was an Israeli air strike so they fired off their rockets.
Obviously even people who live there cannot keep track.
Five people dead on one side. Probably more on the other.
Why are you Pitting a news outlet in another country for not reporting news in a third country?
I don’t see many English people pitting American news outlets for not reporting… well, anything not directly affecting Americans or involving more than 10 deaths, really.
And pitting one news outlet specifically for not reporting something for which there is as yet no confirmation when no other outlet, even the Jerusalem Post (at the time of the OP) is reporting it either. Just another ax-grinding ass-hat.
What is a fsck? Is it like a tsp?
It’s one of those misspellings the Brits have to use because of the metric system, like ‘colour’ and ‘centre.’
The OP is American. Maybe it’s Baltimore-speak.
A statement that could only come from someone who’s never watched the BBC, or is too stupid to understand what he sees.
The BBC has its blind spots and biases, like any other news organization.
At the time I made my original post, they had zip on their site about the events in Gaza and southern Israel, even though it was “old news” in Israel. They do have reporters, don’t they?
The BBC is an international news organization, so comparisons to American news organizations that don’t pretend to serve an international audience are not useful.
Maybe they would care if the IRA was rocketing London on a daily basis.
What the fuck are you talking about you tit?
I know full well that the footage was provided by an “Israeli group”, although what relevance that has is unclear. The footage wasn’t filmed by the suppliers of the cameras, it was filmed by Palestinians (supposedly goat herders), and then returned to the Israeli charity.
As I said, who exactly provided the footage, and the true identity of the attackers, was never questioned by the BBC. It’s not like there’s no history of propaganda coming out of the occupied territories.
Never said it didn’t.
But the idea that it is the left/liberal equivalent of Fox News Channel is just so far removed from reality that it could only be proposed by someone who is completely unfamiliar with the BBC, or who has no grip on reality.
I remember a few occasions recently when i thought the BBC didn’t do a great job of covering a story, or missed some key points, or demonstrated some unprofessional biases or poor journalistic standards. But the fact is that the BBC still produces outstanding news programs and reports, and is still, in many ways, the standard by which other news organizations are judged. And for good reason.
The type of baiting, and sniping, and rabid idiocy, and plain poor journalistic ethics that are everyday occurrences on FNC are so different from BBC standards that it’s like comparing apples with spiral galaxies.