Bad week for the Beeb
It’s hardly been a great week for ‘Auntie’.
The Reckoning was produced by ITV studios but broadcast on Mondays and Tuesdays on BBC 1. The final episode’s credits revealed that an investigation by Newsnight into Sir Jimmy Savile had been dropped.
Next up was their coverage of the Israel/Hamas conflict, criticised for refusing to term the latter ‘terrorists’ – even after the brutal massacres of October 7th – but rather ‘militants’ and ‘fighters’.
Then on Tuesday they followed the Hamas line that Israel was responsible for the hospital bomb.
A press conference the following day by an IDF senior spokesman revealed that the crater damage in the car park was inconsistent with an Israeli missile.
Sky News’ excellent military expert Professor Michael Clark also doubted whether Israel was the originator.
Sadly by then the damage had been done with global protests including one in Turkey showing a burning of an Israeli flag with – rather than the Star of David – a swastika inset.
This all plays into the objectives of Hamas, who can strike Israel with the sort of brutality against Jewish people not perpetrated since the Nazis and, when Israel reacts, the notion of equivalence promoted by the BBC kicks in.
Before you label Neil Rosen as a one-eyed Zionist consider this.
Recently a bus of young orthodox Jews was attacked in Oxford St. by a group of yobs.
The BBC reporter maintained the youngsters inside the bus provoked the attackers, but two analyses from videos within the bus revealed the attacked were scared and calling for help.
They did not speak in English but the two translations obtained confirmed they were doing what anyone might do in such a situation namely, call for help.
The BBC coverage generated much criticism, not least from former Director General Lord Grade (‘sloppy journalism’) but, if there has been an investigation, it’s not publicised.
The BBC don’t obviously care for investigations.
