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Over 100 staff accuse BBC of bias in coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza

BBC staff Accuse BBC of bias

The BBC has been accused by more than 100 of its staff of giving Israel favourable coverage in its reporting of the war on Gaza and criticised its lack of “accurate evidence-based journalism”.

“The consequences of inadequate coverage are significant. Every television report, article and radio interview that has failed to robustly challenge Israeli claims has systematically dehumanised Palestinians,” the letter said.

First reported by The Independent newspaper on Friday, the signatories included more than 100 anonymous BBC staff and more than 200 from the media industry, as well as historians, actors, academics and politicians.

“The consequences of inadequate coverage are significant. Every television report, article and radio interview that has failed to robustly challenge Israeli claims has systematically dehumanised Palestinians,” the letter said.

TVNL Comment:  The bias of the media, in the UK and the US in particular, has contributed to the unbridled cruelty of the IDF in Gaza, the West Bank, and now in Lebanon.  The war against Palestinians has gone on for decades, and now has escalated into an overt and unapologetic genocide.  Kudos to the BBC staff and others who are standing up against the dehumanization and deaths of so many innocent civilians.

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Billionaire Daughter Of LA Times Owner Says Harris Endorsement Pulled Over VP’s Gaza Stance

Owner of LA Times

Nika Soon-Shiong, a progressive activist, told The New York Times on Saturday the pulled endorsement “was an opportunity to repudiate justifications for the widespread targeting of journalists and ongoing war on children.”

Earlier, she said “genocide is the line in the sand” when tweeting about the endorsement decision Thursday, and noted in her statement to The New York Times it was “the first and only time” she was involved in the endorsement process.

Soon-Shiong told the Times his daughter was speaking in her own capacity and that she does not participate in any decision or discussion with the editorial board, “as has been made clear many times.”

Nika Soon-Shiong, however, has been repeatedly accused of meddling with the newspaper’s editorial team.

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Right-Wing Guest Booted From CNN Mid-Segment After 'Vile' Attack On Panelist

Mehdi HasanA conservative commentator was given the boot from CNN in the middle of a show after a “completely unacceptable” attack on a fellow panelist.

“I hope your beeper doesn’t go off,” right-wing personality Ryan Girdusky told Mehdi Hasan after Hasan said he supports Palestinian people.

Last month, hundred of pagers held by suspected Hezbollah operatives across Lebanon exploded in an attack widely believed to have been carried out by Israel. At least 37 people were killed, including two children, and thousands were injured.

“Did you just say I should die?” Hasan asked in disbelief. “Did you just say I should be killed on live TV?”

“No, I did not say that,” Girdusky said.

“You said you hope my beeper doesn’t go off,” Hasan pointed out.

Bezos faces criticism after executives met with Trump on day of Post’s non-endorsement

WP Execs met with Trump before Bezos decision

The multi-billionaire owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, continued facing criticism throughout the weekend because executives from his aerospace company met with Donald Trump on the same day the newspaper prevented its editorial team from publishing an endorsement of his opponent in the US presidential election.

Senior news and opinion leaders at the Washington Post flew to Miami in late September 2024 to meet with Bezos, who had reservations about the paper issuing an endorsement in the 5 November election, the New York Times reported.

Amazon and the space exploration company Blue Origin are among Bezos-owned businesses that still compete for lucrative federal government contracts.

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Woodward And Bernstein Blast Washington Post's 'Surprising' Decision Not To Endorse

Woodward and Bernstein

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the famed journalists whose reporting on the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post led to Richard Nixon’s resignation from the White House, questioned their former publication’s “surprising and disappointing” decision to not endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

“We respect the traditional independence of the editorial page,” began a joint statement from the pair, saying the paper’s decision “ignores the Washington Post’s own overwhelming reportorial evidence on the threat [GOP nominee and former President] Donald Trump poses to democracy.”

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Furor over Washington Post’s decision to not endorse presidential candidate: ‘Stab in the back’, ‘dying in darkness’

Furor at WP There was uproar and outrage among the Washington Post’s current and former staffers and other notable figures in the world of American media after the newspaper’s leaders on Friday chose to not endorse any candidate in the US presidential election.

The newspaper’s publisher, Will Lewis, announced on Friday that for the first time in over 30 years, the paper’s editorial board would not be endorsing a candidate in this year’s presidential election, nor in future presidential elections.

After the news broke, reactions came flooding in, with people criticizing the decision, which, according to some staffers and reporters, was allegedly made by the Post’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Karen Attiah, a columnist for the Washington Post who writes a weekly newsletter, called the decision an “absolute stab in the back”.

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Did the 'L.A. Times' and other news outlets pull punches to appease Trump?

Patrick Soon Shiong

Recent episodes involving major U.S. news organizations have stoked fears that outlets are preemptively self-censoring coverage that could offend former President Donald Trump, who remains neck-and-neck in the polls with Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of Election Day.

“One of the central media stories in the U.S. right now is the people who run big media companies making accommodations for a second Trump presidency and thinking about how to avoid antagonizing him,” Ben Smith, editor-in-chief and co-founder of the news site Semafor, tells NPR.

Semafor’s Max Tani first broke the news that the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Patrick Soon-Shiong, intervened to block the publication of an editorial endorsing Harris. The Trump campaign swiftly shared the Semafor story with supporters.

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