Cookery programmes are still popular, and last night’s Panorama offered another traditional and much loved recipe for making Israel look really evil.
Ingredients.
Two or three bright-eyed fanatics.
One grey-haired self-hating lawyer with American accent.
One or two Chosen People, with multiple progeny.
Spicy Topping:
Assorted Palestinians. (select: sad, angry, wounded, bereaved, evicted from home, tearful child.
Before use, carefully remove all traces of religiously based anti-Semitism and murderous intent.
Garnish.
Available off the shelf: Ready-made clip of small group walking towards camera in religious fancy dress. Must include one large furry hat made from enormous car tyre.
Method.
Pre heat audience by drip-feeding propaganda for 40 years till boiling. Scrupulously remove and discard all historical context. Mix together, dish up and present, preferably by woman who has stolen Clare Short’s face.
If this is facetious, there is a serious side. Panorama used to be an important programme, a flagship BBC product. Now it’s superficial, sensational and slapdash. A microcosm of the BBC.
Panorama used to be an important programme, a flagship BBC product. Now it’s superficial, sensational and slapdash. A microcosm of the BBC.
How true. The final “fed up” moment for me came, when even the once excellent “Horizon” programme went down the tubes.
Sounds like a ‘real matzoh pudding’ of a piece…
Robin Shepherd;
Prime time BBC documentary on Jerusalem: An anatomy of bias and distortion
Of course Robin’s article is the one I wish I could have written. The foul stew I concocted above shows how jaded I am, but it does contain some of the key elements that are in Robin’s post, and I am gratified that Robin picked out the same quote that I mentioned yesterday in the open thread.
Sigh.
I thought your use of a cookery recipe was quite a good vehicle to show BBC bias – it’s the BBC who cook up a “foul stew”.
sue wrote: Of course Robin’s article is the one I wish I could have written. The foul stew I concocted above shows how jaded I am…
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Not at all. It was fresh, striking and witty, as well as making the serious point about bias.
Someone called RoB obviously enjoyed it. He knows just who the oppressors are, and was delighted at how clearly they showed it.
I saw the last half by chance , not having
: read this message. It was surprisingly good
: I thought. It was quite clear who were the
: oppressors showing the Israeli’s cutting of
: East Jerusalam with their wall, demolishing
: Palestinian houses, a clip of a Palestinian
: journalist claiming(probably rightly) that
: Israel was the most racist country in the
: world, an interview with a US/Israeli bigot
: settler who backed up his point.A report and
: video of a Palestinian being shot repeatedly
: in the leg for trying to defend his children
: from the jibes of Israelis, the Israeli
: being aquitted as it was deemed self
: defence. Haven’t watched all of it yet. Will
: try and watch it online tomorrow.
: RoB
I wonder what Jane Corbin would make of that comment.
Would she think: “He gets it!”
Or would she wonder whether her agenda was a little too transparent.
An important point is that Corbin (who’s she?) questioned Israel Supreme Court’s decision about the Jewish ownership of the house although it took many years and meticulous consideration to arrive it. The Supreme Court more often than not decided in favour of Palestinians but in this case Corbin without presenting any arguments questioned the decision, her only argument presumably was her right to insist in her bias
HonestReprting tears it apart too, with links to view it, for expats like me:
BBC: Denying Jewish Jerusalem
By the way, the comment from “RoB”:
A report and
: video of a Palestinian being shot repeatedly
: in the leg for trying to defend his children
: from the jibes of Israelis
Where in the report is there anything about Israelis jibing Palestinian children?
The truth of the matter is that the Israeli defended himself from a hostile Arab mob. But hey “RoB”, let’s just make it all up huh!
CALL TO ARMS!
Jeremy Bowen’s entry on Wiki makes no mention of the welter of accusations against him for anti-Israel bias. I have tried to rectify that and have now been blocked. They do make a reference to the BBC Trust Report, but noone would have the slightest idea of who his ‘breach of impartiality’ was against, and the references contain links to a Guardian blogger who rubbishes the complaints. The whole tone of the Wiki entry is to minimize the partially upheld complaints against him grudgingly reached by the BBC Trust.
I complained about my blocking and the piece was tweaked to now state that the complaints to the BBC Trust referred to “two Israel related” items which is still wilfully clouding the issue of the huge controversy over Mr Bowen’s coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clearly the administrators are members of the Nazi left trying to protect their man’s credibility so he can continue to spew forth his new Nazism and take in the gullible.
Get a log-in to Wiki and get some balance in there. Remember. Dont state that JB is biased, just cite the welter of sourced information alleging his bias.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bowen