Border Attack: BBC’s Horrendous Headlines
June 19, 2012 12:11 by Simon Plosker
One Israeli civilian was killed Monday morning along the Egyptian border in an ambush combining rifle fire, antitank weapons and two explosive devices. Two terrorists who crossed into Israel were killed in an ensuing gunfight.
But you wouldn’t know it from some of the worst headlines covering the story. For example, the BBC:
So according to the BBC, there are no innocent victims and no terrorist perpetrators. In addition, the attack isn’t aimed at Israeli civilians but at an inanimate line in the sand. This is fairly standard for the BBC, which rarely attributes blame to Palestinian terrorists and states Israeli locations as the targets rather than actual people.
Contrast this with a BBC headline from the day before when an Israeli tow truck driver shot and killed two Palestinians and injured another in the West Bank, after they reportedly tried to beat him, hijack his vehicle, and kidnap him.
So when Palestinians are killed by Israelis in self-defense, the BBC makes it crystal clear who is responsible for those deaths as well as using quotation marks to infer that those Palestinians were possibly innocent victims.
Sadly it’s what we’ve come to expect from the BBC.
Annette
1:17 pm
Jun 19, 2012
Disgusting. I just don’t understand how they get away with this every time! It’s so George Orwell, 1984!!
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Israel Daily News Stream 06/19/2012 | Blogs about Israel aggregation
3:19 pm
Jun 19, 2012
[...] Horrendous headlines: The Beeb’s being the Beeb [...]
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Gary Katz
5:13 pm
Jun 19, 2012
Possibly Mr. Plosker meant “imply” rather than “infer,” when mentioning the quotation marks. Thus, anyone skimming the article would get the impression there was a question whether the Palestinians attacked the truck driver.
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Gab Goldenberg
8:57 pm
Jun 19, 2012
BBC updated the title for their tow truck driver story, but not the other one, so it’s still clear that there’s a bias.
Plus, the new title starts with the driver’s actions, and only then discusses why:
Big font: Israeli tow truck driver shoots and kills two Palestinians near Hebron
Subhead: Driver says assailants tried to kidnap him and steal his vehicle
I guess it’s better than what used to be the case there…
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GoonerEll
6:03 pm
Jun 20, 2012
Gab – I completely disagree. The revised version is far worse than the original. Now the attack on the driver is relegated still further. Not only is it now only in a sub-heading, it is portrayed as just the driver’s word, as if it is some sort of lie he has made up to excuse cold-blooded murder.
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Anschlag an der Grenze: die grausigen Schlagzeilen der BBC « Medien BackSpin
1:31 am
Jun 20, 2012
[...] Simon Plosker, HonestReporting, 19. Juni 2012 [...]
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Anschlag an Grenze: Die widerliche Schlagzeilen der BBC « Medien BackSpin
3:01 pm
Jun 20, 2012
[...] HonestReporting Media BackSpin, 20. Juni 2012 [...]
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Simon Shiels
7:01 pm
Jun 20, 2012
Yet another piece of ‘impartial’ (yes I’m implying) reporting from the smug pro Arab BBC….
I say this not as a Jewish person but a disgusted UK citizen who refuses to own a television rather than pay the mandatory TV License fee which funds this grossly mismanaged and outright biased organisation.
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Louise Mensch Gets A Fogel Apology From BBC | Israellycool
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Jun 25, 2012
[...] We know the answer: nothing as witnessed by the headlines this weekend as Jews are once again targeted by indiscriminate weapons of war. [...]
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