Today Drop Site News is publishing a landmark investigation about the BBC’s coverage of Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza by British journalist Owen Jones. His report is based on interviews with 13 journalists and other BBC staffers who offer remarkable insights into how senior figures within the BBC’s news operation skewed stories in favor of Israel’s narratives and repeatedly dismissed objections registered by scores of staffers who, throughout the past 14 months, demanded that the network uphold its commitment to impartiality and fairness. Jones’s investigation of the BBC has three main components: a deeply reported look into the internal complaints from BBC journalists, a quantitative assessment of how the BBC characterizes the year-long siege on Gaza, and a review of the histories of the people behind the coverage—and, in particular, one editor, Raffi Berg.

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    7 days ago

    I’ve been reading BBC for ages and if anything I’d say they’re pro-Palestine. They constantly report child casualties, etc.

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      7 days ago

      You have to look at the language used to convey the news, e.g. the passive “child dies in xxx air strike” vs “xxx launches air strike, killing a child”. They always use the passive voice when describing Israeli actions.