Little or no public debate allowed by the BBC.

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Caller to R5 live the other day mentioned that the last time the conflict in the ME was discussed on Nicky Campbell's show was March 14.
Considering there are usually 2 topics discussed and that it goes out 5 days a week, that's a lot of shows that haven't been a platform for debate about Israel/Gaza.

And it gets even worse.

BBC1 question time, and you have to go back to October 17 2024 to find a question about the ME. Since Oct 17, dozens of questions about Trump and Ukraine, but strangely Israel / Gaza doesn't feature.
Also, whilst stories about Harry or GCSE results will have a "Have your say" comments section, on the BBC news website, there are none for stories on the current conflict.
LBC not afraid to cover it and to be a platform for a discussion, the BBC obviously are.

Not stating the number of IDF dead on October 7th, 2023 could also give the incorrect impression that the Hamas terror attack was solely against civilians. Whenever Oct 7th is referenced in the news, it is even today over a year after it ended, reported in terms of total deaths, civilian and soldiers.

Reporting total deaths is not an unusual practice during conflicts. It is usually post attack or conflict/ war that the deaths can be fully analysed and filtered by civilian or combatant. Even then, the total dead number is the number most often used when referencing an attack or war/conflict.

During a conflict, provisional estimates of deaths are frequently incorrect, even if not purposely inflated or deflated through propaganda.

At last.....
Last night BBC Question time had a question on Gaza.

"Is the UK government ignoring the genocide in Gaza?"
And Fiona Bruce was absolutely useless in getting the panel to answer it. Though she did throw in, unbidden, what she said was a claim from Israel that it could all stop if Hamas just handed over the hostages. Interesting, but Israel has not offered a permanent end to hostilities after hostage hand over, however this didn't stop Fiona from throwing it into the mix. She must obviously read these threads.
Very limp replies, from the panel and hardly any of them addressed the question.
Audience were impassioned and the majority clearly thought that UK should be ashamed of itself.

AND,
Any Questions on R4 tonight.
"Why is our government not doing more about the crisis in Gaza.?"

Obviously the BBC had packed out the audience with wide-eyed trots from the loonatic fringe because just the question was greeted with loud applause and cheering from many, many people.

Be interesting to hear the Any Answers tomorrow.