• HeartyBeast@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    That’s some amazingly heavily edited footage there. It’s worth seeking out the unedited version if you want to make the accusations of bias.

    So firstly, as you’ll know - the BBC has come under a lot of political attack for refusing to call Hamas terrorists - and still don’t. Theres’s good evidence that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza - and the BBC has covered that.

    But genocide is the deliberate attempt to wipe out an entire people and that’s a word that the BBC would argue - like ‘terrorist’ has to be used carefully. It does not simply mean a wilful disregard for civilian lives.

    Interestingly enough, the biggest cockup in the BBC’s coverage during this was, was the misreporting of the explosion at the Gaza hospital as being due up an Israeli missike strike that flattened it.

    This was jumped on by critics of the BBC as a flagrant example of anti-Israel bias.

    Bottom line, the BBC is imperfect, but tries to report impartiality. People with strong opinions dislike impartial reporting.