The BBC flunks Journalism 101 when it comes to Israel
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Bad journalism has bad consequences.
Traduce Israel, and you bring Jew-hating angry mobs onto the street. That is a step away from acts of racial hatred. Journalists know this, yet they willingly act as cheerleaders for such hatred, whipping it up with distorted, manipulative and sometimes dishonest journalism.
They should know better.
THE BBC BREACHED EDITORIAL GUIDELINES OVER 1,500 TIMES IN ISRAEL-HAMAS CONFLICT, REPORT CLAIMS
The BBC is the largest and most ‘trusted’ brand in journalism. We know this, because the BBC tells us. It earns this sobriquet by dint of its past glories, and the fact that it is legally obliged to produce ‘impartial’ news. In return for this promise, it is paid more than $5 billion per year by the British public.
The Asserson Report, which I published earlier this month, takes a deep dive into four months of BBC news coverage of the Israel–Hamas war. We look at some 9 million words of output using a traditional litigation style analysis. In parallel, a team of data scientists (operating as the Research for Impartial media – RIMe) conducted a series of experiments using cutting-edge AI techniques. Working independently, yet collaboratively, these two disciplines found strikingly
