Tag Archives: BBC
Massaging the media
Overview/Facts/Leaders/Media http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14631745 as it was on 31 August 2011 at 10:09 GMT One could come away from this article imagining, as the photograph suggests, there is a struggle in the media reflecting the struggles between the two major leadership factions. If … Continue reading
The one-eyed is King
Overview/Facts/Leaders/Media http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14631273 as it was on 31 August 2011 The first thing one notices in the profile on Leaders is that Fatah/PNA head Mahmoud Abbas receives more than twice the coverage of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniya. Why is that? The second … Continue reading
Facts with the territory
Overview/Facts/Leaders/Media http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14631271 as it was on 31 August 2011 at 10:10 GMT Facts are supposed to be, well, factual. So what do we make of intended seat of government East Jerusalem? Fatah also intends Revolution until Victory. Is that a fact, a … Continue reading
Comes with the territory
BBC profiles Palestine – as the narrative requires Overview/Facts/Leaders/Media http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14630174 as it was 28 February 2013 at 12:22 GMT Sometimes things pass under the radar and some never change. In 2005 I submitted a point-by-point fisking of the then current Israel and the … Continue reading
Democracy tomorrow
21 January 2013 Show you care — give your vote away </SARC> Israelis doing the right thing according to the BBC The Israelis who give their vote to Palestinians While most Israelis abuse their democratic right to vote by electing people the … Continue reading
A course in map reading III
12 January 2013 Jabaliya on the map When you read BBC Gaza reports you can’t help wondering whether any of its reporters have ever visited. Or perhaps we should wonder if any of the subeditors ever thought to fact-check … Continue reading
Omar wasn’t a terrorist but Ahmed was
29 November 2012 Will the BBC amend the story? In If I was a Hamas PR guru … I would take lessons from the BBC, 5MFI accused the BBC of shilling for Hamas exactly as their media section would have directed. Now … Continue reading
If I was a Hamas PR guru …
25 November 2012 … I would take lessons from the BBC If I was a Hamas public diplomacy guru, how would I direct the BBC to ‘position’ the war between Israel and Gaza? I would tell them to focus on … Continue reading
A course in map reading I
22 November 2012 How the BBC mapped the conflict Operation Pillar of Defence is over, for now but I expect the two graphics provided to show the extent of attacks will be links for a long time and online for … Continue reading
Two new action items
11 November 2012 Sign the Balen Report petition It’s long been my daydream that the Balen Report on BBC Middle East reporting somehow falls into my hands (Leaker, I will be discrete about your identity) and I would send it … Continue reading
