Shows how untrustworthy the BBC are

[morqthana]

in no way is it being controlled by the Labour govt

it was by the last govt though -Tim Davie was a Boris plant

And don't forget BBC Board member Robbie Gibb.

Brother of a Conservative politician, Theresa May's director of communications, sole director of the company which owns the Jewish Chronicle while this was going on

A crisis at the Jewish Chronicle shows the toothlessness of the press watchdog

The country’s longest-standing Jewish newspaper ran a fabricated story that has prompted a widespread inquiry in Israel, writes Alan Rusbridger. But, at home, the press regulator has show little interest in holding the title to account

www.independent.co.uk

Oh - and he helped set up that beacon of impartiality and high journalistic standards, GB News.

 

[morqthana]

I wonder how many of the shouting BBC-haters will want to read these:

The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump

It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Extra edition: The populist assault on the BBC

Johnson, Gibb and the Telegraph are trying to turn the BBC into GB News.

iandunt.substack.com

BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders

Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’

www.theguardian.com

 

[pete01]

Didn't realise morqthana could sing

 

[morqthana]

All part of the same report, it goes a lot deeper than Trump, climate change, Trans,, Israel Gaza war.

BBC’s bias ‘pushed Hamas lies around the world’

The BBC’s Arabic news service chose to “minimise Israeli suffering” in the war in Gaza so it could “paint Israel as the aggressor”, according to an internal report by a whistleblower.

www.yahoo.com

The BBC’s Arabic news service chose to “minimise Israeli suffering” in the war in Gaza so it could “paint Israel as the aggressor”, according to an internal report by a whistleblower.

Allegations made against Israel were “raced to air” without adequate checks, the memo says, suggesting either carelessness or “a desire always to believe the worst about Israel”.

BBC Arabic, which is funded partly by a grant from the Foreign Office, gave large amounts of space to statements from Hamas, making its editorial slant “considerably different” to the main BBC website even though it is supposed to reflect the same values, managers were warned.



The BBC also gave “unjustifiable weight” to Hamas claims about the death toll in Gaza, which are widely accepted to have been exaggerated for propaganda purposes, and incorrectly claimed the International Court of Justice had ruled that genocide was taking place.

Danny Cohen, the former director of BBC Television, said it was now clear that the BBC was “not safe” in the hands of its senior managers and they should “hang their heads in shame and resign”.

In an article for The Telegraph, he said: “Having made such serious and misleading journalistic errors, BBC executives chose to hide them from the public rather than correct the record.

“Protecting the BBC’s reputation came before the duties and principles enshrined in the BBC’s Charter obligations.”



He added: “That the BBC has helped to push Hamas lies around the world and fuelled anti-Semitism at home cannot now be in doubt.”

The BBC was plunged into crisis on Monday when The Telegraph disclosed that a Panorama documentary doctored a speech by Donald Trump which made it look as though he had incited the Capitol Hill riots.

As a result, the BBC is facing questions over trust, with Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, and the broadcasting regulator Ofcom facing growing calls to launch an inquiry into alleged BBC bias.

Concerns about coverage of the war in Gaza were raised in the same 19-page letter to the BBC Board that highlighted the “manifestly misleading” Trump documentary.

Michael Prescott, who until June was an independent adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee (EGSC), was so appalled by the BBC’s lack of action over multiple instances of bias that he wrote a devastating memo that was sent to all BBC Board members and is now circulating in government departments.
In a copy of the letter seen by The Telegraph, he says that BBC Arabic gave a platform to journalists who had made extreme anti-Semitic comments.

One man who said Jews should be burned “as Hitler did” appeared as a guest on BBC Arabic 244 times in 18 months.

Another man who described Israelis as less than human and Jews as “devils” appeared 522 times in the same period.

Earlier this year, BBC Two broadcast a documentary called Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone which it later admitted was narrated by the son of a Hamas official. The broadcasting regulator Ofcom found that the film was “materially misleading” and ordered the BBC to broadcast a statement with the findings. The film was also removed from iPlayer.



Despite years of complaints about the BBC’s reporting of the Gaza conflict “there is no sign of an open admission” by managers about “systemic problems” within BBC Arabic, Mr Prescott said in his memo.

BBC Arabic, which is part of the World Service, is funded mainly through the licence fee, but also receives support from the Foreign Office through its World2020 programme.

The Government regards BBC Arabic, and the World Service as a whole, as having a “crucial role in supporting UK soft power and countering harmful disinformation”, according to a statement in the House of Lords in 2023.

Mr Prescott’s memo casts serious doubt on whether BBC Arabic is fulfilling its anti-disinformation role.



The memo said there was “critically different treatment” between the main BBC news website and BBC Arabic of a rocket attack on a football game in the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, on Israel’s border with Lebanon, in July 2024 that claimed the lives of nine children.

The English language version of the report included a denial by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah that it was responsible for the rocket strike but included evidence that it had bombed other sites nearby.

BBC Arabic made no mention of the other rocket attacks and gave greater prominence to Hezbollah’s denials, while making no reference to the deaths of children.

The next day it followed up with a report about claims that Israel faked the attack.



Mr Prescott wrote: “It is hard to conclude anything other than that BBC Arabic’s story treatment was designed to minimise Israeli suffering and paint Israel as the aggressor.”

If fillyboy is such a staunch opponent of bias, can anybody here help me out and show me where he jumped up and down about this:

Crisis at the Jewish Chronicle is no surprise

www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk

Because I can't find anything when searching.

I mean - surely he isn't biased himself, given how he reacts when he detects it in others.

 

[noseall]

Some confusion between editing as in changing, and editing as in selecting part of a quote for comment.

What do you expect from the likes of trans and aveatry. They barely know their arse from their elbow, poor old duffers.

 

[aveatry]

What do you expect from the likes of trans and aveatry. They barely know their arse from their elbow, poor old duffers.

Hey look a troll ho never has anything to say other than to just troll

 

[aveatry]

It is emerging that the whole thing was a coup and an inside job.

Access Restricted

There is a long standing right wing agenda to get rid of the bbc a) because there’s s lot of money to made either beeb out of the way and b) it’s suits the politics of the media barons whose agendas are challenged by journalism they can’t control. I’m not a fan of the beeb but it will definitely survive because it is a convenient and to an extent controllable mouthpiece of whichever government is in power.

Where is BBC verify when you need them

 

[noseall]

Hey look a troll ho never has anything to say other than to just troll

Nonsense. Demonstrating your poor grasp of the forum rules is educating not trolling boyo.

 

[Notch7]

Most of the population are now suffering the effects of unwanted immigration,

are they?

Ive asked people on here and nobody has actually come up with any examples of it affecting them in any way

how does it affect?

 

[Notch7]

All part of the same report,

youve quoted an article by the Telegraph which is the Tory parties media propaganda outlet

 

[morqthana]

are they?

Ive asked people on here and nobody has actually come up with any examples of it affecting them in any way

how does it affect?

By triggering the unhinged to pump out all sorts of bllx which the rest of us have to see on social media, newspapers like the Mail, Express, broadcasters like GB News....

 

[noseall]

are they?

It's a Reform-ism. When they say 'most' what they actually mean is a bunch of lonely old gammon flag shaggers, that have found sanctuary in bosom of their revered leader Fromage.

 

[morqthana]

I like cheese, including many French ones.

If you want a play on his name like that, how about "Frottage"?

 

[transam]

It is emerging that the whole thing was a coup and an inside job.

Access Restricted

There is a long standing right wing agenda to get rid of the bbc a) because there’s s lot of money to made either beeb out of the way and b) it’s suits the politics of the media barons whose agendas are challenged by journalism they can’t control. I’m not a fan of the beeb but it will definitely survive because it is a convenient and to an extent controllable mouthpiece of whichever government is in power.

Jeez us wept

 

[aveatry]

are they?

Ive asked people on here and nobody has actually come up with any examples of it affecting them in any way

how does it affect?

Not that again - you have already had your ass handed to you on a plate on this one - no one its going to go through it all again with you- this is what you do when you loose an argument -- go silent for a while about it and then come back with the same questions - its exhausting - you either have memory issues or its a deliberate tactic. And it doesn’t matter how many times things are pointed out to you - you will never understand living in your little white village.