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14 February

Chomsky and MarrRAZOR-SHARP INSIGHT INTO THE BBC
On this day in 1996, Noam Chomsky explained to BBC interviewer Andrew Marr how the BBC manages the news, not just on Israel-Palestine issues.
Marr: “How can you know that I’m self-censoring? How can you know that journalists are..”
Chomsky: “I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believed something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”
(BBC The Big Idea - Interview with Andrew Marr)

 

نظرة في عمق مؤسسة بي بي سي

 14 فبراير

في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 1996 ، شرح نعوم تشومسكي لمقدم برنامج بي بي سي أندرو مار كيف تدير بي بي سي الأخبار ، ليس فقط في القضايا الإسرائيلية الفلسطينية. مار: كيف تعرف أني أمارس الرقابة الذاتية؟ كيف يمكنك أن تعرف أن الصحفيين هم .. "تشومسكي:" أنا لا أقول إنك تمارس الرقابة الذاتية. أنا متأكد من أنك تصدّق كل ما تقوله. لكن ما أقوله هو أنه إذا كنت تؤمن بشيء مختلف ، فلن تكون جالسًا حيث تجلس "

 

Chomsky on hapless Andrew Marr and the BBC - if you've only got 22 seconds. Deserves to be stored and shared when discussing BBC false claims to neutrality and balance.

 

 

Endemic pro-Israel bias in UK TV coverage, new book finds

By fastidiously counting lines of transcript text, the authors identify a systematic preference for Israeli points of view. Israeli speakers were given twice as much space as Palestinians during the first few weeks of the intifada (215). Israeli casualties were disproportionately reported, accounting for approximately a third of the coverage, despite the actual ratio of 13 Palestinian deaths to one Israeli at that stage (223). After the Palestinian retaliatory bombing campaign began, this phenomenon worsened: “from October to December 2001 we found that there was significantly more coverage of Israeli casualties than Palestinian” even though the reality was actually still the opposite (259-60).

The study’s most telling findings concern the dominant explanatory framework and the lack of background or historical context in coverage. Even when individual journalists manage to make implicit criticisms of Israeli actions, such as on the killing of civilians, Israeli rationales were always reported — or even adopted by journalists themselves. “The journalists do not always sound happy about the Israeli rationales” but they were still included and “there is no comparable inclusion or discussion of the reasons for Palestinian action”.

An open letter on the BBC’s dismissal of Corbyn bias findings

"We are writing in connection with research published last week by academics from the Media Reform Coalition and Birkbeck, University of London, that found that, during the height of the recent Labour leadership crisis, twice as much airtime on the main BBC news bulletins was given to voices critical of Jeremy Corbyn compared to those who were supportive. We were disappointed that a BBC spokesperson dismissed the research as partial and the work of a ‘vested interest group’."

The British journalist here summed up in the 1920s - how much truer today - by Humbert Wolfe:

You cannot hope to bribe or twist
(thank God!) the British journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do
unbribed, there’s no occasion to.