Ah yes, the notoriously left wing BBC... My eyes are rolling so hard they may fall out of my head.
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Compared to American news, yeah. :P
That's the thing though.
... um ... not sure how to finish this
That's the neat thing. You don't. Omniman.jpg
You're not measuring by what percentage of Trump stories are positive/negative, the only metric that matters to him.
Nutrition Label...? Is that just a cute name for the full details?
Palestinian deaths treated as less newsworthy: Despite Gaza suffering 34x more casualties than Israel, BBC gave Israeli deaths 33 times more coverage per fatality and ran almost equal numbers of humanising victim profiles (279 Palestinians vs 201 Israelis).
Systematic language bias favouring Israelis: BBC used emotive terms 4 times more for Israeli victims, applied ‘massacre’ 18x more to Israeli casualties, and used ‘murder’ 220 times for Israelis vs once for Palestinians.
Suppression of genocide allegations: BBC presenters shut down genocide claims in over 100 documented instances whilst making zero mention of Israeli leaders’ genocidal statements, including Netanyahu’s biblical Amalek reference.
Muffling Palestinian voices: The BBC interviewed significantly fewer Palestinians than Israelis (1,085 v 2,350) on TV and radio, while BBC presenters shared the Israeli perspective 11 times more frequently than the Palestinian perspective (2,340 v 217).
https://cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-israel-one-story-double-standards/
Over 400 media figures, including 111 BBC staffers, have signed a letter demanding the BBC remove board member Robbie Gibb over conflict of interest on Gaza and the Middle East and his “consistent efforts to stifle legitimate coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza”
https://institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/article/3250
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.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage
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The US government shouldn't be relied on for credible or reliable information.
They can't be relied on for anything.
Can't even be relied on to feed it's people.
The biggest fucking joke of an empire in human history.
We tried giving people boots with straps to pull themselves up, but that didn't work either.
Nobody knew it would be so complicated.
Liar they made us buy those boots
Incredibly bleak, given how much they've historically invested in demographic, scientific, and economic data analysis.
But even when you look back on that data and information, the majority of it was skewed and manipulated to conform to and confirm a very specific set of values, politics and beliefs .... much of whom didn't have the best interests of people but rather in coddling corporate interests, the economy, money and power.
While that may be true, I think it’s also generally correct that the information was generally based on objective reality, even if the interpretation was skewed. Now, they are just making up information, and using it to support that narrative they wanted. It’s easier when you can skip objective reality to make up the story you want, and continue to repeat it as indisputable fact
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Said the guy who produces fake news 24/7.
Whenever I see things like this it reminds me of Ben Shapiro accusing Andrew Niel of being on the left instead answering the question.
Miss Leavitt is the reason that dumb blonde jokes actually exist.
Miss? She's not even married? How is it that she is accepted by her fellow fascists?
They think they have a chance.
And since they treat women like property, I would be wholly unsurprised if the whole Trump administration is full of classic American workplace sexual harassment, Mad Men-style.
At least mentally she is a miss. As in miss by a mile...
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she also wears a pretty big cross that swells everytime she lies.
Does she read his diaper shit like tea leaves to determine what is true?
Reading? No. Tasting? Yes.
How is calling a news network fake not lible and opening up the government to be sued?
It's spoken, so it would be slander. Libel is printed.
But they wouldn't really have much to gain by suing. They're not losing business because of this.
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Didn’t Donny post an AI video of him flying a jet and dropping shit on protesters? Didn’t Donny post an AI video of himself playing guitar?
Despite this glowing endorsement the BBC can be kind of shit at times, especially with political stuff. But the reporting on US stuff is normally ok because they don't have any dog in that race.
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Waiting for the first nation to label the US Government as a rogue state.
It would be kind of ridiculous for them to publicly announce that. You can call Iran a rogue state because what are they going to do about it?
Publicly calling out the US is a bit more dangerous.
Ma’am, excuse me but, you’re a fucking idiot.
Another hot take from Bullshit Barbie.
Shes a little piglet.
That is the highest compliment you can give a news outlet. Great work BBC.
BBC should report that.
Ah, the liar paradox
It's always funny when the BBC report things about themselves. They always talk about themselves as if they're a third party.
"The BBC understands that the BBC is been sued"
Every fucking day this portion of the US government is so much like WWE.
This is prime entertainment for the Kremlin.
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JFC, these people. "You're a big poopyhead!" hasn't been an appropriate comeback since 2nd grade. I can't believe these people do not get tired of being perpetual children.
...and Kim Jong-Un is a great and very honest leader.
"all that he’s doing to make America better and the world a safer place."
SUCH AS? NAME ONE THING!
That’s rich coming from the white housse.
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