The BBC is making a laughable attempt to pretend that they’re impartial when it comes to Israel—by refusing to run ads for a Gaza disaster relief appeal advertisement. At first, none of the British networks would run the ad. Then ITV, Channel 4, and Five said they’d accept the ad. Sky News will not run it either.
Really, though—how does not accepting a single ad make them impartial when the BBC bias is so clear that they’ve refused to release a study commissioned to see if they are biased against Israel?
An independent panel in May found the BBC’s reporting from Israel did “not consistently constitute a full and fair account of the conflict but rather, in important respects, presents an incomplete and in that sense misleading picture.”
However, the 38-page report commissioned by the BBC’s governors to “assess whether the BBC’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict meets the required standards of impartiality” found that apart from “individual lapses” there “was little to suggest systematic or deliberate bias” in its reporting.
The panel found that BBC reporting displayed “gaps in coverage, analysis, context and perspective” and failed to “maintain consistently the BBC’s own established editorial standards, including on language.”
They recommended a senior manager be appointed to oversee BBC coverage of the Middle East, that its reporting provide a “full and fair” account of the “complexities” of the conflict, that its complaints procedure be revised, and that it reform its use of language.
It’s a joke.
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