BBC apologises for ‘serious flaws’ over Gaza documentary

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07zz5937llo

Posted by Mein_Bergkamp

8 comments

  1. Hamas is also a political party. The boy is the son of the minister of agriculture. I don’t understand how this makes the whole thing a mistake

    This is such a dumb take. God forbid the world sees an actual view of the perspective of a people undergoing an ethnic cleansing

  2. Is this the one where they subtitled someone saying “Jihad against Jews” as saying “Resistance against Israeli Forces”?

    Gee, I wonder, why would the UK taxpayer & US taxpayer funded media org that parrots Hamas lies (like that famous hospital rocket attack) lie so brazenly to their viewers, paragons of integrity that they are?

  3. Pathetic cowardice on display by the BBC. Though it’s surprising that the consent manufacturers would have agreed to put out a piece that humanizes the victims of a genocide in the first place.

  4. Some people think that the big problem is that the British news outlet had interviewed a relative of designated (by UK) terror org…but that’s not the real big problem. (Edit: But it’ll become an issue for the BBC if they actually had paid money for said interview)

    The real big problem is that someone at the BBC had changed the translation of some words intentionally for some reason. That move comes out as bad/shoddy journalism or outright manipulation.

  5. From all accounts, the apparent issue is that the son of the deputy minister of *agriculture* narrated the documentary.

    I feel like this is making a mountain out of a mole hill simply to censor a documentary like this coming out of Gaza.

    Perhaps, to prevent a more mainstream avenue for people to see firsthand the awful conditions in which millions of people in Gaza now have to live.

    Surely, no one would have an issue with it if they just changed the narrator?

  6. I miss the times when documentaries were just documentaries, instead of being treated like, or colored by contemporary political statements.

    They have one job, and that is to go in and tell how things really are. Just the damn facts. Whose life they choose to document doesn’t matter; the situation on the ground is still the same, the destruction is still there, the human suffering being experienced doesn’t change one iota.

    A documentary about ants doesn’t care whether it’s being shot from the point of view the one feuding hive or the other.

    Same thing applies to media. Just roll the damn camera and report on the facts; stop trying to inject your opinions or analysis nobody asked for.

  7. Judging by the reactions that this is getting, one would think that Palestinians are committing some war crimes.

    I find it quite “interesting” that whenever there’s any sort of mistake made by Palestinians or their supporters. It will get so much attention and condemnation that it will make you think they did something quite awful… but in the meantime, they keep on getting bombed despite the ceasefire. Which doesn’t receive not even a quarter of the same attention.

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