Congratulations on an incredible piece of work. I'm sure many of us, perhaps millions of us, felt the bias over the past 14 months, but to see it laid out here so nakedly and obviously is a damning indictment of BBC bias. There should be questions in the House over this issue, but as long as Zionist voices in the governing party continue to pull Starmer's strings, no satisfactory response will be given. That does not diminish the importance of your reporting, however, and I applaud you for it.
Excellent report, thank you. The BBC's response to allegations of bias is of course 100% predictable. A propaganda outlet will, naturally, never, ever, ever admit it is spewing lies and distortions. The great tragedy is that anyone, ANYONE, tunes into the BBC (or any other government mouthpiece) to think they will find anything approximating the truth. That is what needs to change.
Great reporting. Sadly, the legacy media in the US, the UK, and elsewhere in Europe have become the propaganda arms of white supremacist settler colonial domination. The Zionist project has sought to make Jews the new master race.
Thank you for publishing this terrific piece of investigative journalism. It is very sad to see the BBC engage in such biased reporting, but here in the US virtually all of the reporting on the Gaza conflict from major news organizations appears to have an Israeli bias. Thanks to Drop Site, Zeteo, Democracy Now, and The Intercept for their honest, in depth coverage!
Citing the October 2023 attack is the most blatant, continuous, and effective part of the anti-Palestinian propaganda about Gaza. Nothing about Israel's control of water and electricity, to say nothing of all the other rights people should share in the so-called democracy.
Chomsky’s manufacturing consent in an all-out parade here. For the BBC, children and the disabled of Gaza are just falling dead of their own volition and without clear cause, and it is only one source claiming it is even so. An outrageous pretzel of the narrative to appease power as the public is fed non-stop utter lies. Investigations like yours exposing press propaganda are essential. Thank you.
It’s worse than that. Chomsky described the process as a filter so that propaganda was due to the journalists genuine ideological world view without any need for self or systemic censorship. This is a process of a conscience effort by the BBC top brass and the likely Mossad agent editor to prevent truth and propagate falsehoods.
I hope all at the BBC remember that this could and I hope does one day lead to criminal convictions and serious repercussions.
It’s not enough to speak anonymously to Owen, if they’ve got a platform they need to speak out loud and clear, even if it means losing their job.
2024 has been the nail in the coffin for people’s trust in mainstream media anyway and no one believes most of the crap the MSM spout anymore.
Because of the topic here, I want to mention Alison Weir, an American journalist who has for decades been documenting the toll of lives in Palestine/Israel and the biased US reporting on same. Dedicating her life to this effort, I am sorry to say she has received little notice. Her website is Ifamericansknew.org. I think she put too much confidence in Americans being roused to change their attitude toward Israel by the facts when I think the truth is they just don't care.
Casey. dude… it’s not ‘misandry’ - it’s reported this way because it can always be argued that men are combatants, whereas it cannot be argued that women and children are.
not the just BBC reporting that way - also, it's just as easy to frame this as part of trad masculinity as misandry imo - women and children first to the lifeboats is misandry?
Fair, then misandry is part and parcel of traditional masculinity that exclaims "women and children first". I guess it feels weird to me to pile on with this concern here. To your point though, I have noticed this as more widespread than just the BBC. If I'm not mistaken a lot the Ukraine death count reporting does the same as well?
your observance that it's often men who are misandrous is bang on.
have you ever noticed that when women repeat harmful gender norms it's called "internalized misogyny" and when men repeat harmful gender norms it's called "toxic masculinity"?
sometimes I think about that.
perhaps "internalized misandry" is a healthier way to describe the phenomenon we're talking about here.
Someone is referring to a misandry as "internalized misogyny"? Misandry isn't the only harmful gender norm, but most male deployed harmful gender norms that reach my ears are indeed toxic masculinity, whether it's called internalized misandry or not. My own toxic masculinity has something to say about this level of sensitivity, but we're working on that.
Owen - I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have exposed so much, that so many of us know, but could not substantiate in the researched way that you have.
My multiple complaints to The BBC about bias on this subject have met with the standard responses - described in your article - and it is beyond frustrating. I have subscribed to your channel, dropsitenews, etc., and will be encouraging others to do so.
Great work Owen and Drop Site News. If you live in Scotland and/or support independence you will know the state broadcaster's claim of impartiality is a sick joke. BBC Scotland's main role is to preserve the union, and to that end viewers get embarrassingly amateurish programmes and gaslighting from the news teams. In the UK as a whole, while the BBC used to make or show excellent programmes, a good way approach for a propaganda outfit, they've more or less stopped doing that in the last thirty years and lost viewers. The notion that the BBC is "cherished" is laughable. Sadly, the clearly biased reports on Gaza won't bother a large swathe of a country that is Islamophobic and anti-Arab. But the Beeb has been losing much of their audience for years and that will have accelerated since 7 October.
Congratulations on an incredible piece of work. I'm sure many of us, perhaps millions of us, felt the bias over the past 14 months, but to see it laid out here so nakedly and obviously is a damning indictment of BBC bias. There should be questions in the House over this issue, but as long as Zionist voices in the governing party continue to pull Starmer's strings, no satisfactory response will be given. That does not diminish the importance of your reporting, however, and I applaud you for it.
Excellent report, thank you. The BBC's response to allegations of bias is of course 100% predictable. A propaganda outlet will, naturally, never, ever, ever admit it is spewing lies and distortions. The great tragedy is that anyone, ANYONE, tunes into the BBC (or any other government mouthpiece) to think they will find anything approximating the truth. That is what needs to change.
Thank you for this detailed analysis pinning it down specifically. A record was needed. It is shameful.
Great reporting. Sadly, the legacy media in the US, the UK, and elsewhere in Europe have become the propaganda arms of white supremacist settler colonial domination. The Zionist project has sought to make Jews the new master race.
Thank you for publishing this terrific piece of investigative journalism. It is very sad to see the BBC engage in such biased reporting, but here in the US virtually all of the reporting on the Gaza conflict from major news organizations appears to have an Israeli bias. Thanks to Drop Site, Zeteo, Democracy Now, and The Intercept for their honest, in depth coverage!
Citing the October 2023 attack is the most blatant, continuous, and effective part of the anti-Palestinian propaganda about Gaza. Nothing about Israel's control of water and electricity, to say nothing of all the other rights people should share in the so-called democracy.
Chomsky’s manufacturing consent in an all-out parade here. For the BBC, children and the disabled of Gaza are just falling dead of their own volition and without clear cause, and it is only one source claiming it is even so. An outrageous pretzel of the narrative to appease power as the public is fed non-stop utter lies. Investigations like yours exposing press propaganda are essential. Thank you.
I mean when “may your village burn” is translated as a patriotic song, we may have a wee bit of distortion.
It’s worse than that. Chomsky described the process as a filter so that propaganda was due to the journalists genuine ideological world view without any need for self or systemic censorship. This is a process of a conscience effort by the BBC top brass and the likely Mossad agent editor to prevent truth and propagate falsehoods.
I hope all at the BBC remember that this could and I hope does one day lead to criminal convictions and serious repercussions.
It’s not enough to speak anonymously to Owen, if they’ve got a platform they need to speak out loud and clear, even if it means losing their job.
2024 has been the nail in the coffin for people’s trust in mainstream media anyway and no one believes most of the crap the MSM spout anymore.
People are seeing past the false narrative to the barbarous slaughter perpetrated by Israel and the US. How do you justify 45,000 dead?
Because of the topic here, I want to mention Alison Weir, an American journalist who has for decades been documenting the toll of lives in Palestine/Israel and the biased US reporting on same. Dedicating her life to this effort, I am sorry to say she has received little notice. Her website is Ifamericansknew.org. I think she put too much confidence in Americans being roused to change their attitude toward Israel by the facts when I think the truth is they just don't care.
Terrific, meticulous reporting Owen Jones! Thank you!
Being anti-Palestinian is not the only way the BBC is biased.
Note the headline and the photo in the link below.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5wel11pgdo
What's wrong with the headline and the photo you ask?
If you read the article it says that 44% of the victims were children and 26% were women.
The article fails to mention men at all.
However if you do the math it means that 30% of the victims were men.
So why the headline and photo about women?
Misandry.
Yet another example of people treating men as the disposable gender.
The BBC makes these sort of anti-male editorial decisions all the time.
Casey. dude… it’s not ‘misandry’ - it’s reported this way because it can always be argued that men are combatants, whereas it cannot be argued that women and children are.
not the just BBC reporting that way - also, it's just as easy to frame this as part of trad masculinity as misandry imo - women and children first to the lifeboats is misandry?
Seeing male lives as less valuable than the lives of women is definitely an example of misandry.
For your consideration:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MenAreTheExpendableGender
Fair, then misandry is part and parcel of traditional masculinity that exclaims "women and children first". I guess it feels weird to me to pile on with this concern here. To your point though, I have noticed this as more widespread than just the BBC. If I'm not mistaken a lot the Ukraine death count reporting does the same as well?
your observance that it's often men who are misandrous is bang on.
have you ever noticed that when women repeat harmful gender norms it's called "internalized misogyny" and when men repeat harmful gender norms it's called "toxic masculinity"?
sometimes I think about that.
perhaps "internalized misandry" is a healthier way to describe the phenomenon we're talking about here.
Someone is referring to a misandry as "internalized misogyny"? Misandry isn't the only harmful gender norm, but most male deployed harmful gender norms that reach my ears are indeed toxic masculinity, whether it's called internalized misandry or not. My own toxic masculinity has something to say about this level of sensitivity, but we're working on that.
Owen - I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have exposed so much, that so many of us know, but could not substantiate in the researched way that you have.
My multiple complaints to The BBC about bias on this subject have met with the standard responses - described in your article - and it is beyond frustrating. I have subscribed to your channel, dropsitenews, etc., and will be encouraging others to do so.
The Israel lobby and its agents have literal blood on their hands
Great work Owen and Drop Site News. If you live in Scotland and/or support independence you will know the state broadcaster's claim of impartiality is a sick joke. BBC Scotland's main role is to preserve the union, and to that end viewers get embarrassingly amateurish programmes and gaslighting from the news teams. In the UK as a whole, while the BBC used to make or show excellent programmes, a good way approach for a propaganda outfit, they've more or less stopped doing that in the last thirty years and lost viewers. The notion that the BBC is "cherished" is laughable. Sadly, the clearly biased reports on Gaza won't bother a large swathe of a country that is Islamophobic and anti-Arab. But the Beeb has been losing much of their audience for years and that will have accelerated since 7 October.