The BBC has a duty to accuracy and impartiality which they fail to uphold time and time again, because of an institutional inability to hold Hamas responsible for their own actions, or even name them as actors at all. In this way they recruit themselves into Hamas’ propaganda strategy and entirely abdicate their responsibility to their audience and licence fee payers.
Committee for the Protection of Journalists announced that they will revise their database and remove journalists who are now being claimed by terrorist organizations. Will this be enough to fix their reputation, CAMERA's David Gertman asks in JNS?
Reuters again amplifies unverified allegations against Israelis while minimizing security realities and omitting facts necessary for understanding the story. Its June 10 article on Taybeh gives readers accusations, not verified evidence, and reinforces a misleading narrative about Israel and Christians in the Holy Land.
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Financial Times editors upheld a complaint from CAMERA, and amended an article falsely claiming that “Almost all buildings in Gaza have been destroyed by two years of Israeli bombardment."
NBC's report from Jerusalem sounded like Palestinian Authority propaganda. From provocative, hyper-partisan language to asymmetric chronology and misinformation in service of a narrative, NBC's report created tensions rather than explaining them.
From the Committee to Protect Journalists to the news outlets sympathetically covering them (with senior journalists on their board), Hamas terrorists have been misrepresented as journalists.
Israel sends a humanitarian delegation to Venezuela to help after the earthquakes, despite a lack of diplomatic relations. Slovenia's new government has done a 180 degree pivot towards Israel. The Board of Peace moves forward with a new plan to cut out Hamas.
The New York Post wrongly alleges that "Lebanon" says it will not honor the ceasefire agreement signed June 26 by both Israel and Lebanon. In fact, the rejectionist comments came from Parliament Speaker and Hezbollah ally Nabih Berri, who is not tantamount to "Lebanon."
The BBC chose not to tell its audiences about the CPJ review into the deaths of journalists in Gaza. Why is an institution committed to impartiality obscuring the truth?
