Two events that seem eminently pointless and one sided discussing BBC bias but only its ‘pro-Israeli’ bias…all the speakers being the ‘usual suspects’….’sold out’ indeed:
Due to high demand this event will be held at the Shaw Theatre, 100-110 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2AJ.
First Wednesday: Reporting the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict – Emotion, Bias and Objectivity
The latest chapter in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has again highlighted the difficulties of covering this complex and deep-rooted conflict that provokes such a strong emotional response from the general public.
The BBC has faced accusation that it is not critical enough of Israel’s actions and that its reporting is one-sided, where as Channel 4 News has been accused of crossing the line between journalism and campaigning. Is there a middle ground?
In the face of such devastation should we expect correspondents to offer an objective view devoid of emotion? If we encourage correspondents to show more emotion do we risk compromising the credibility and standard of journalism in this country?
Join us as we take a view of the coverage we have seen, talk to the journalists that have produced it and ask what we can learn.
The panel:
Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East Editor.
Jon Snow, Channel 4 News anchor.
Addition speakers to be announced.
and this:
Date
28/08/2014
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location
Amnesty International’s Human Rights Action Centre
17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2A 3EA
London
Here let me save everybody the time and effort to tune in. The result of the above will be to
Claim the West is racist
Israel must be punished
All Muslims are victims of Islamophobia
All links to Israel must be cut
WE are all Hamas now
Think of the children
And ISIS is misunderstood
Well there’s some irony there!
All Muslims are victims of Islamophobia
Think of the children
Well I am thinking of the children. Some 1400 of them in Rotherham, who the Fascists utterly failed.
People have forgotten just how bad the public sector was pre Thatcher, but there are those who remember, Rotherham indeed all our councils represent everything bad about public sector services.
Despite 1400 children being abused the Labour run council and Politically Correct Squad (can’t bring myself to call them ‘Police’), not a single one of them has been sacked, or disciplined, or given a written warning, nor even had a finger wagged in their direction. You can bet that if there had been an accusation of ‘Waycism’ the victims feet wouldn’t have touched!
Liebour made certain ethnic groups immune from Police oversight and although the council leader resigned (big of him) there now needs to be an investigation into any kind of deliberate instruction to turn a blind eye to Pakistani crime.
This appears to only have started after Nu Liebour came to power, and to have carried on during Dhimmi Daves misrule.
The BBC have up to now reported this as well as we could ask, but we need the magnifying glass of investigative journalism behind the scenes of the council. I doubt that the ‘Muslim community’ will talk to the media, unless it’s in terms of victimhood, but if not then they need to tell us that, and that they have drawn conclusions as a result.
Somehow, Hamas had managed to find some money to buy thousands of rockets from Iran.
at the end of the day, the only people accusing the bbc of pro israeli bias are far left extremists like the swp and the likes of george galloway who is awaiting to see if the cps are going to charge him with inciting racial hatred against jewish folk in bradford,hamas i am sure will be proud of that,but on the plus side,hamas got a bloody nose and isreal has put them on probation to see if they can behave themselves like the fools they are,the message is clear now,you terrorists cowards hamas or your cousins isis @@@@ with israel and you will get pummeled into the stone age.
I wish this was true. Sadly there are massive sophisticated and sustained campaigns where people who have been radicalised and others are encouraged to attack the BBC as pro Israel and much money is poured into this. ( there is plenty of money that should be for humanitarian purposes but is spent on anti Israel propaganda and encouraging active campaigns to promote hatred of Israel). As the BBC is a publically funded institution this can be fought against by all of us even if it is just to keep emailing or writing to complain – (they have to answer complaints and have to employ people to do this)
I knew UNRWA has a very dodgy record – but this analysis suggests it is at the root of the Gaza problem, alongside Hamas – perpetuating and supporting the desire to sweeo Israel off the map :
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=19607
Surely the whole point of groups like this is that they allow the BBC to claim that they are being attacked from both sides of the argument and therefore must have it about right!
‘There will be a particular focus on the BBC, examining whether the publicly funded broadcaster’s coverage is accurately and impartially reflecting the facts on the ground.’
I would really love to be a fly on the wall for that discussion. None the BBC, the ‘panel’ or the audience would recognise a fact about the current situation or the historical background to it if it jumped up and bit them on the arse.
And it’s being held at ‘Amnesty International’s Human Rights Action Centre’. They neatly sum up the surreal, juvenile ‘human rights’ position taken by the liberal left: Hamas good, Israel bad.
They will still be excusing the Islamo-fascists even as they come suicide-bombing their local number 9 bus, which is looking increasingly inevitable.
“held at ‘Amnesty International’s Human Rights Action Centre’.
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It’s like mini ‘QT’, with venue, audience, chair, questions, etc all carefully selected.
And any wisdom generated from such a ‘debate’ (that’s me using quotes in the BBC manner) will be breathlessly ‘reported’ as speaking for the nation.
Just not sure the nation is minded to pay much heed to BBC shilling any more.
Quotes around ‘wisdom’ would not have gone amiss either.
Oh, the ironing !
In other words, the topic of the discussion is ‘Is the BBC biased enough?’.
Must gall these people the limitations of retaining some semblance of ‘plausible deniability’ places upon the BBC in going as far as it (and they) would like it to in demonising Israeli self-defence.
The issue here is ‘We think you could have got away with being more biased’, ‘We dont think we could, any suggestions on how we might do so in future gratefully received’.