The Media And The Middle East

 

The BBC is going to take a look at how the Media reports events in the Middle East…or at least investigate why so much attention is paid to the Middle East…a different take altogether really.

Media and the Middle East

The rockets and missiles fly, from Israel into Gaza, from Gaza into Israel. It’s the latest iteration of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours which has flared since the very founding of the Jewish state in 1948.

Why does this particular conflict, above all others, attract the attention it does? And why does it create such strong emotion, even among those with no connection to the region?

John Lloyd, a contributing editor at the Financial Times, examines the evolution of coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict from the founding of Israel to the present day.

With contributions from journalists and those who monitor them, Lloyd asks why there is such focus both on the conflict itself and on those who report it.

And he examines the challenges of reporting fairly and accurately on a conflict in which every assertion is contested.

 

 

It doesn’t actually seem to be looking at whether reporting is biased…the last sentence merely looks at the ‘challenges of reporting fairly and accurately‘…again a different emphasis altogether.

As the BBC already denies Hamas censored their reporting from Gaza how can we expect this to be anything other than a whitewash when we know that Hamas tries to control everything the media in Gaza reports?

A couple of years ago we heard a BBC reporter in Gaza being unceremoniously taken off air by his Hamas minder during a live feed to Victoria Derbyshire’s show….the BBC told us it was technical issues…no, it clearly wasn’t if you had ears to listen.

You can gauge for yourself just how truthful the BBC is about its own reporting Saturday night at 20:00 on R4.

However judging by the trail on R4 this morning when the two clips we heard were of the Arabs being expelled from Palestine and how a reporter admired the Israeli military efficiency and effectiveness you can see how this might turn out……Arabs victims of Israeli aggression and the BBC pro-Israeli.

 

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10 Responses to The Media And The Middle East

  1. Guess Who says:

    Intriguing start point:

    “The rockets and missiles fly, from Israel into Gaza, from Gaza into Israel”

    I was rather under the impression it was the other way round.

    Easy mistake to make. Well, not perhaps every time.

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  2. Rufus McDufus says:

    “From the founding of Israel” I look forward to hearing about the thousands of years of history of the region then since the founding of the kingdom of Israel.

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  3. dave s says:

    I will expect a thorough explanation of the history of the region prior to 1948 and then a factual account of the war of that year. Also the fact that the UK abstained in the vote at the UN that set up Israel.
    Doubtful in the extreme.
    Israel cannot be discussed rationally by the dominant intellectual/media liberal left.
    It is an emotional matter and ,I believe, is part of the liberal’s world view.
    Support for Israel is like thinking Mrs Thatcher was a fine PM.
    The liberal cannot comprehend such a thought.
    If you want to waste time listen to it.

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  4. Mailman says:

    Well they could save themselves a lot of bother and just release the report on their Middle East reporting carried out by a certain Mr Balen.

    And as Guess Who already pointed out, a very interesting way of wording who is firing on who.

    Mailman

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  5. John Anderson says:

    If it is the John Lloyd who was an FT reporter in the 1980s it might not be too bad – John reported well on technical and political issues.

       2 likes

  6. deegee says:

    Is alBeeb Islamophobic?
    If it isn’t then why are 5 from 7 mounting problems facing the world something that Muslims do?

    Tunnel Vision

       3 likes

  7. stuart says:

    it is like a cancer at the bbc,they will debate the middle east and always israel will be brought in as a narrative to explain away the behaviour of these 7th century savages who worship a certain religion,the bbc could have a debate about badger culling and you could bet your botten dollar that some caller will bring israel into the conversation,as for vicky derbyshire did you hear her tearfull farewell on her show last friday,ummm,,shelagh forgarty got the boot 2 days earlier from radio 5 live,now she has popped up at the weekend with all her liberal leftie empathy on her new show on lbc, 2 down one more to go,yup,richard bacon getting the big kick up the backside from radio 5 live next and from what i have heard he in none to pleased to be getting in what is in affect the sack from his 2pm slot on radio 5 live.

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  8. George R says:

    ” BBC Feasts on Israel, Silent on Rapes in Rotherham”

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15635?#.VBAbkMJdW9Y

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  9. George R says:

    INBBC: two months behind on reporting exploits of Islamic jihadists from Manchester-

    e.g. Zehra Haldane.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=zahra%20haldane

    (-scroll down page for current updates from other sources.)

       2 likes

  10. Coldcall says:

    Its simple, they are obsessed left wing anti-semites. They will never not be obsessed. Its a sickness of the mind, pathological and extremely dangerous, not just to Jews.

       1 likes