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2024-09-09 Britain

The BBC breached editorial guidelines over 1,500 times in Israel-Hamas conflict, report claims

[FoxNews] The BBC questioned the damning report's methodology

A new report found the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) guilty of violating its own editorial guidelines over a thousand times in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.

According to The Telegraph, the report analyzed four months of BBC output on television, radio, online, podcasts and on social media during the height of the conflict and found a "deeply worrying pattern of bias" against Israel.

British lawyer Trevor Asserson and a team of about 20 lawyers and 20 data scientists used artificial intelligence to analyze nine million words from the news outlet, starting the day of the October 7, 2023, terror attack.

Long known, but it’s very useful to have it quantifiied.

The researchers allegedly identified 1,553 instances where the BBC violated its own editorial guidelines on impartiality, accuracy, editorial values and public interest.

The report accuses the BBC of downplaying Hamas terrorism and painting Israel as the aggressor in dozens of instances.

Israel was associated with "war crimes" four times more frequently than Hamas (127 vs. 30); genocide 14 times more often (283 vs. 19), and breaching international law six times more often than Hamas (167 vs. 27).

BBC reporters who had shown hostility toward Israel on social media were also featured in the network's war coverage, the report claimed.

Researchers reportedly found 11 instances on the BBC's Arabic channel, where it featured reporters who had previously made public statements in support of terrorism and Hamas.

"The findings reveal a deeply worrying pattern of bias and multiple breaches by the BBC of its own editorial guidelines on impartiality, fairness and establishing the truth," the report said, according to the Telegraph.

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#1 The report shows they hate Israel almost as much as they hate their own "lower" classes?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-09-09 12:20|| 2024-09-09 12:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The biggest lie they tell is when they try to pass themselves off as journalists. They are not journalists, they are propagandists. They have an agenda and if the truth gets in the way of their agenda, the truth suffers.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-09-09 13:16|| 2024-09-09 13:16|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Nope. They just have a distorted picture of the World and filter out anything that doesn't fit.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-09-09 13:25|| 2024-09-09 13:25|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^That's that makes them so dangerous.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-09-09 13:27|| 2024-09-09 13:27|| Front Page Top

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