BBC’s Disgusting Response to Olympic Complaints
July 24, 2012 13:51 by Simon Plosker
At HonestReporting, we recognize and credit our readership for taking action against the media when they are sufficiently motivated to do so. While it is our job to encourage activism, we know that our readers are not automatons who will write letters to editors or complain to the media at our say so.
While we can alert the public to the issues, it is ultimately an exercise in free choice and independent and informed thought as to whether or not someone will take action. Unfortunately the BBC evidently believes the opposite.
Many people who complained to the BBC about its failure to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on its Olympic country website profile were answered with the following included in a canned response:
We have received a range of feedback about the errors on the BBC Sport Olympics page and we feel it is worth explaining that a considerable number of those have been generated by online lobby activity.
What exactly is the inference of referring to “online lobby activity?”
Does the BBC consider your individual complaints less worthy simply because the information was passed on to the complainant by way of HonestReporting or any number of other organizations?
Not to mention the particularly insidious connotation behind referring to a “lobby” when it comes to an issue associated with Jews or Israel. Is the BBC insinuating that the issue is being driven by dark forces behind the scenes and that the complaints are insincere?
This is simply a cheap and nasty way of diverting attention from the real issue.
When people take the time and effort to complain, it is irrelevant how they came to be notified or encouraged to do so. Every individual complaint deserves the full attention of the BBC without prejudice as to whether or not the complainant happens to be a reader of HonestReporting or any other organization.
For the BBC to say otherwise is disrespectful and the accusation of some form of deceitful lobbying is utterly disgusting.
Bubbelove8
9:07 pm
Jul 29, 2012
FIRST GET ALL THE EMBASSIES OUT OF TEL AVIV AND INTO JERUSALEM!!! No more pussyfooting around.
Second, where is our wonderful President Obama?? Don’t you think that he could make a statement about Jerusalem being the Capital of Israel? Those of you who still support Obama need your heads examined. He continues supporting the terrorists – because that is what he is. America is doomed if he is elected, and Israel is, too. He is NO friend of Israel.
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Pauline Chinn
10:05 am
Aug 05, 2012
I know that the BBC and Manchester Guardian comments are always biased against Israel So my only advice is to get these publications to fire the editors and put a few non-biased journalists in.
Still,; I can’ boycott the HOT or to resist switching to BBC Prime and keep watching the BBC shows on the TV. I agree with all the other comments too. Pauline Chinn
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Al Neuman
7:54 pm
Aug 08, 2012
It’s beyond obvious that the BBC has for a long time had a disgraceful bigoted bias toward Israel (as does the Guardian of course).
While i firmly believe these biases cloaked in “political disagreement with Israel’s policies” are so blatantly 1-sided and inaccurate that they can only arise from underlying antiSemitism, i don’t hold out much hope that either of these smug self-absorded liberal dominated media sources is going to change their hateful policies any time soon.
The best approach i believe is to continue what HR does so well—call out BBC, the Guardian and any other media source which makes blatantly dishonest statements about Israel, as loudly and publicly as possible.
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Motti
10:49 am
Sep 08, 2012
Don’t forget the BBC retains the services of highly paid leftwing Jews who remain schtum, as one would expect of them.
The tax payers funded BBC is a highly corrupt organisation with the top echelons paying themselves fantastic sums of money along with very expensive expenses. Of course, it also backs it’s equally corrupt leftwing anti democratic EU, and therefore understandably anti Israel. The Guardian, it’s sunday sibling the Observer and the so called Independent are all corrupt in their reporting on Israel. all are ultra left wing.
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Motti
10:52 am
Sep 08, 2012
We have seen the far right(so called) Nazis and the far left Communists combine to attack Israel and it’s leaders.
The difference between the rabid far right Nazis i.e. National Socialists hatred of the Jews and the far left Communists i.e. International Socialists hatred of the Jewish state is one small matter – Inter. There is no difference and should be treated with contempt and suspicion. Sadly too many Jews are unable to feel the betrayal of the leftwing camp. They still live in the past.
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Paul Tenenbaum
11:38 pm
Sep 10, 2012
To bubbelove0: You think you are the center of the world? I do not know who the H.. you are, but to call our President a terrorist, your brain needs to be circumcised. If you only knew how much he has helped Israel, just talk to the IDF and look at the weapons supplied by your “Terrorist” In plain English, shame upon you.
Tenpa
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Al Neuman
3:02 am
Sep 11, 2012
Tenenbaum:
Here’s a newsflash for you: If Obama has been so great for Israel (and the only Jews i know who still believe this are those who remain bobble-head zombie Obamaniacs), why do 80% of Israelis when asked if Obama has been more good or bad for Israel, answer “bad”?
The problem with Obamaslurps like yourself is that you’re oblivious to the facts about this Fraud in the White House, including all the well-documented times he’s thrown Israel under the bus like totally dissing Bibi when he visited, telling Israel to revert to indefensible pre-67 borders, leaking Israeli security secrets, failing to do anything significant to contain Iran’s nuclear program, etc.,etc.
Get a grip.
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Dan Martin
11:05 am
Sep 11, 2012
I doubt that any other ethnic group has contributed more per capita than the Jews to building up the prosperity and power of the USA in all fields: technological, scientific and medical, economic, industrial and military. Unfortunately we have also produced, like any other people, our share of degenerates who are busy undermining the structure of the building.
These usually run to a predictable pattern — superficially sophisticated metropolitans who are in fact deeply ignorant, lovers of good living who are not prepared to lift a finger to defend our precious civilisation, long-haired pseudo-intellectuals who love Obama and hate Bush and Regan.
They include Tenenbaum. Shame on him!
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