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to be astounded at the bbc reporting bias?

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splashymcsplash · 30/03/2011 20:59

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8402973/A-family-slaughtered-in-Israel-doesnt-the-BBC-care.html

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LDNmummy · 31/03/2011 00:36

Well I saw this on the news the other day, didn't seem glossed over as all details were included in the story and there was even a family picture with the children in. It was so sad and mentioned across the board from what I could tell as it was breaking news.

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splashymcsplash · 31/03/2011 08:47

Ldn mummy, which channel was that on? BBC stated it was not featured on any of their news broadcasts, not even news 24.

In reply to a couple of other posters, a Palestinian terrorist organization took responsibility, but that is irrelevant to the original point. It's funny how some people tried to make this about the conflict, then back tracked when it was convenient.

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Birdsgottafly · 31/03/2011 08:56

Children are murdered and raped around the world under the guise of 'conflict' everyday. Although i am aware of what goes on i was very sorry that i watched one of the Ross Kemp programmes about how rape is used.

IMO the way news is broadcasted and published is to suit an agenda. It is not about the horror of what has happened.

Strictly · 31/03/2011 10:11

I find it difficult to watch the BBC new TBH as the anti-Israel bias does really annoy me. To me it really does boarder on anti-Semetism.

It's disgusting that the BBC don't feel the need to report on an entire family being beheaded and found in that state by a child. You know for a fact if it had been the other way it would have been the top story for days.

Just like now in Libya. They cannot confirm any coilition caused deaths but apparently they can confirm everything anyone says Gaddafi does Hmm

ensure · 31/03/2011 10:16

People die in terrible ways all over the world all the time. How odd to expect the bbc to cover this sad story in particular.

If it happened in Durham yes fair enough, but it didn't.

BulletWithAName · 31/03/2011 10:20

Strictly I agree with you on that. Can't stand all the anti-Israel/loosly veiled Anti-Semetism they seem to spout on there.

Strictly · 31/03/2011 10:37

It's a mass murder not a bloody 'sad story' FFS. A mass murder of children with beheading. For the Lord's sake if this has happened ANYWHERE else in the world it would have been reported.

A French women let her baby starve to death. That made the news.

Strictly · 31/03/2011 10:40

ensure I'm actually shaking with rage. You are clearly lacking in all human decency if you can describe the death and mutilation of 5 people including a newborn baby as a 'sad story'.

My God I wonder what it would take in your warped world to merit a 30 second slot on the news?!

Birdsgottafly · 31/03/2011 10:44

It wouldn't necasserly have been reported if anywhere else (certainly the things highlighted by Ross Kemp weren't). I think that there is a resignation that mass murder, ethnic cleansing has always happened and will continue to do so and there is little the EU can do about it. Child cruelty within the EU is different, we can leglislate about that.

Birdsgottafly · 31/03/2011 10:45

BTW I am not agreeing that the EU cannot be of influence.

Ormirian · 31/03/2011 10:45

There was a thread on this the other day.

It's horrific and there is no excuse at all for this barbarity but I don't see why people are using it a stick to beat the BBC with. I beleive it happened at the same time as the Japan earthquake which was by any yarstick hugely newsworthy.

And I also find it odd that anyone would suggest the the Telegraph has the right to accuse anyone else of bias Hmm

Ormirian · 31/03/2011 10:46

"You know for a fact if it had been the other way it would have been the top story for days."

Really? How? Confused

Ariesgirl · 31/03/2011 10:54

Strictly, it does happen elsewhere in the world in tribal conflicts and religious conflicts the world over. It's an unpalatable truth. None of that makes what happened to the Israeli family any less horrific obviously.

The BBC is perhaps trying to redress the pro-Israeli bias which is found in the States. IMO it is nothing to do with anti-Semitism.And the incident has occurred at the same time as mass destruction and death in Japan, possible nuclear meltdown, civil war and government sanctioned slaughter in Libya and other places in the Middle East and the possible implosion of an entire and very volatile region. Dark days indeed.

Strictly · 31/03/2011 10:56

So we should live our lives based, yet again, on what happens in the US?!

They don't allow drinking til 21, so we should we make it 14 to 'redress' the balance Hmm what an odd world.

Ariesgirl · 31/03/2011 10:56

Sorry about the first sentence of my last paragraph - I meant they perhaps seek to redress the balance in their day to day reporting of the Israel/Palestine conflict, not with regard to this particular incident only.

Ariesgirl · 31/03/2011 10:58

Strictly - er, no. What an odd thing to suggest.

Please don't seek to imply that people who who choose different words to you think that the beheading of children is not horrific and barbaric :(

ensure · 31/03/2011 11:01

Strictly: If you are shaking with rage because hearing about a murder makes me feel sad, that is pretty strange.
Murder is terrible. It's sad.

cantspel · 31/03/2011 11:03

The BBC is a joke and not worth bothering with.

In feburary a catholic priest had his throat cut by islamic extremists in tunisia and it didn't even warrant it's own story but was tagged on to the end of a story about a Islamist rally against brothel.

Ormirian · 31/03/2011 11:07

Do you know how many people were tortured and butchered in Rwanda? Do you have any idea? No, neither do I because there were thousands of atrocities but not every one was reported in detail.

Why is this one more newsworthy?

Birdsgottafly · 31/03/2011 11:11

Ormirian- that was my point, obviously Ross Kemp is not a reporter but some of his stuff in Rwanda has been shocking. I read a broad spectrum of newspapers but have never seen these events published.

cantspel · 31/03/2011 11:18

The rwanda Genocide took place in 1994. The media has changed a lot in the years in between. We how have instant news and on the spot coverage via satelite, twitter and facebook none of which we had in 1994.

Ormirian · 31/03/2011 11:22

But what has that got to did with BBC bias cantspel?

MrsDaffodill · 31/03/2011 11:27

It is a horrific story. Sadly and tragically there are many, many tragic stories in this world and no broadcaster could report all of them.

cantspel · 31/03/2011 11:28

in so far as not reporting everything that happened in rwanda is not the same as selecting which stories to report today to fit in with their political ideology.

Today we know instantly what is happening the other side of the world which wasn't the case in 1994 so no excuse for missing a story or not giving full coverage.

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splashymcsplash · 31/03/2011 12:02

The fact that there are unreported conflicts in the world is a travesty but completely irrelevant

The middle east conflict is extensively reported by the BBC, but they seem to pick and choose what they are willing to broadcast. And yes, I do think if Israeli settlers had done this to Palestinians, it would be headline news.

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