NBC's recent reporting on Lebanon had various layers of bias, including buried facts, omitted facts, and wrong information. The result was a lack of accuracy, balance and context.
On the border with Lebanon, Israeli residents described their daily realities of instability, sleeplessness, and the constant need for resilience amid war with Hezbollah and Iran. Outside of Israel, International Quds Day drew tens of thousands of demonstrators, rallying in support of designated terrorist organizations.
A Mar. 15 MS NOW segment drew a false equivalence between school shootings and Israeli military operations in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, ignoring the difference between Israeli soldiers operating in complex urban warfare environments and school shooters that purposefully target children.
It’s extremely dispiriting that, with all Max Hastings’ erudition, he nonetheless succumbed to mind-numbingly banal cliches and ahistorical arguments about the root cause of violence and instability in the Middle East.
Can Israel’s military be trusted to investigate itself? With its “Video Investigation: How the Israeli military responds to allegations of abuse in Gaza,” NBC News steered its viewers to conclude that Israel has committed war crimes that should be investigated by the world because it has failed to investigate itself. But to make its case, NBC resorted to concealing the facts again and again.
ABC News enabled Hamas-laundered propaganda when it reported uncritically on a Duke University-funded medical research study. Two Hamas-allied physicians co-authored the extraordinarily biased study with 11 Duke University students and faculty.
With an absurd claim about purported aspirations for peace between Hamas and Israel and a ludicrous assertion that far-right Israeli Minister Smotrich supposedly kicked off a campaign promoting Jewish "colonialism," AP and AFP hilariously get into the spirit of Purim.
The BBC's pattern of reporting cannot by now be dismissed as isolated cases of errors and omissions. BBC audiences are being serially denied information which would contribute to their understanding of the way in which continued terrorist activity is currently influencing events in the post-ceasefire Gaza Strip.
In Reuters' latest instance of minimizing anti-Israel terror, the news agency understates the number of Israelis murdered in Hamas suicide bombings, citing "scores." In fact, the figure is hundreds.
Instead of a powerful and moving film on the struggles of pregnancy and motherhood in war, the BBC has instead aired a carefully constructed attack on the State of Israel.
