Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' - John Simpson
Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' - John Simpson
It's simply not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn, writes the BBC's World Affairs editor.
I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion.
Mods, feel free to remove if this is not newsy enough.
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The same thing's happening in Canada with the CBC; bunch of people calling them out for not saying "terrorist" implying it means they're in favour of the attacks, when CBC simply has a policy of not saying that about anyone, because it's not their job.
This is why we need CBC and can't let the Conservative Party of Canada destroy them.
I generally don't like the CBC, but I personally find their international political reporting top tier due to this kind of approach.
???? They call neo-nazis terrorists.
Because they unambiguously are. Nobody reasonable is debating that. We're never going to look back and say "actually they were right"
So burning babies is ambiguous to you?
The lack of self awareness is almost as funny as the liberal fascist siding with the nazis.
No proof, just hearsay from the IDF.
they shared photos....
Of Palestinian children in a Palestinian hospital?
blocked for making bad faith "arguments"
I just listened to a cbc segment that had a jew on saying to escalate, innocent civilians be damned. And yes, I hear JT call out Hamas as terrorists. We're going to support a genocide if that's what Isreal decides to do.
Opinion and interview pieces are obviously different. I didn't realize Trudeau worked for the cbc.
As long as they are balanced, if you only ever have opinion pieces from one opinion, your just being biased by proxy.
This can lead to being over balanced though and inviting climate deniers etc.
I have to disagree.
Best example comes to us via the BBC above, during WW2 they never called the Nazis wicked or evil, but they did not and did not need to have Nazi-apologists on air to present a "fair and balanced" view Fox-News style.
As long as you present opinion as opinion and reporting as reporting and refrain from loaded language in your reporting you're perfectly fine. Could it be better? Yes. But while you might not have arrived at "morally good", you have clearly left "morally bad".