BBC: Terrorism Targets Inanimate Objects

March 23, 2011 20:30 by Simon Plosker

The BBC has come up with yet another example of its institutional bias against Israel. The initial headline of a story says a lot about the thought process of a news editor. While most other news organizations covered a bomb blast in Jerusalem by focusing on the number of casualties as well as the location, the BBC went with this:

According to the BBC, it wasn’t Israelis, Jews, innocent Jerusalem residents or anyone else that a terrorist usually targets. No – it was a bus stop, an inanimate object fixed on the sidewalk.

And what about Sky News, which has recently been on a downward spiral in its reporting from Israel?:

Not much better than the BBC.

Associated Press also produced something similar:

Sadly, for some media outlets, it appears that it’s still too much to acknowledge the reality of terror or the reality of its victims. The bus stop in question may have been the location of the bomb but it certainly wasn’t the object of the terrorists’ hatred.

Category: Backspin Tags:Associated Press, BBC, bus bomb, Jerusalem, Sky News, terror attack, terrorism

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HONEST REPORTING: THE MEDIA SAYS TERRORISTS WERE TARGETING INANIMATE OBJECTS……. |
8:48 pm
Mar 23, 2011
[...] Honest Reporting [...]
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Terror Attack In Jerusalem : Israellycool
10:04 pm
Mar 23, 2011
[...] Updates (Israel time; Latest from top)10:00PM: Honest Reporting notices a trend when it comes to the mainstream media’s treatment of the attack.8:20PM: Holy moral [...]
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Robert Honeyman
10:12 pm
Mar 23, 2011
Sorry, Simon, but you’re completely off-base on this one. Imagine the bomb went off in an airport terminal. Would you honestly protest a headline that states the terrorists targeted the airport? I read the headline and I understand that the terrorists went after a location in which people congregate and wait.
You guys have done really good work in the past but this deserves retraction on your part.
Best regards. Kol tov.
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- Joelle
  4:02 pm
  Mar 24, 2011
  I have to agree with Robert Honeyman. I think we can all assume that people were the target, as the bus stop was likely to be busy at 3pm in the afternoon. The article below the headline clearly shows a photo of an injured person and in bolded text talks about the dead and injured. Its also covered extensively on all the news channels (some of which Im not a fanboy of) and there is no bias whatsoever in the reporting. Simon conveniently took a screenshot of just the headline. This article is VERY off the mark.
  Love to all Israelis and Palestinians caught up in this terrible war.
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  - Joelle
    4:05 pm
    Mar 24, 2011
    And as just one more point…
    “The bus stop in question may have been the location of the bomb but it certainly wasn’t the object of the terrorists’ hatred.”
    You think?…. duh
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SLG
10:52 pm
Mar 23, 2011
We get BBC news channel here in the colonies (Canada) and while switching stations I noticed a split screen interview between correspondents in Jerusalem and Gaza. They spent more time on Gaza than on the bombing although they started with the bombing as the major headline. They detailled how many people attended the funeral of people killed by the Israelis, how many bullets were shot into the air etc. etc.
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David Guy
12:14 am
Mar 24, 2011
The bus stop was not the only inanimate object. Bombs do not target without human intervention.
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Lisa
12:20 am
Mar 24, 2011
How about the following line in Reuter’s article on the Jerusalem bombing:
“Police said it was a “terrorist attack””— Israel’s term for a Palestinian strike”.
The deliberate targeting of civilians is a terrorist attack by anybody’s standards. The term “strike” is more commonly used when attacking a military target. Reuters can’t hide its antipathy for Israeli victims of Palestinian violence.
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Biodegradable
9:59 am
Mar 24, 2011
Now that it emerges that the woman who has died of her wounds was British the BBC has personalised the report:
Jerusalem bus stop bomb victim was British
“A woman who was killed when a bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem on Wednesday was British.”
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Bomben – keine Terroristen « Medien BackSpin
8:40 pm
Mar 24, 2011
[...] Kollege Simon Plosker darlegt, haben sich viele Medien – wie BBC and Sky News – dafür entschieden, dass die gestrige Terroranschlag in Jerusalem gegen eine Bushaltestelle [...]
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