You can’t expect the BBC to interrupt its wall-to-wall coverage of the “far-right terror threat,” now, can you?
“BBC reported only three of 149 terror attacks in Israel in August, says media watchdog,” BBC Watch, September 22, 2019 (thanks to Henry):
(September 22, 2019 / BBC Watch) The BBC reported only three out of 149 terrorist attacks against Israel in August 2019, and none of the seven rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, according to media watchdog organization BBC Watch.
The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during August 2019 shows that throughout the month a total of 149 incidents took place, including 97 in Judea and Samaria, 25 in Jerusalem and inside the Green Line, and 26 in the Gaza Strip region.
In Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, the agency recorded 95 attacks with petrol bombs, 14 attacks using pipe bombs, five arson attacks, two shooting attacks, two stabbing attacks, one attack using a grenade and one vehicular attack.
Incidents recorded in the Gaza Strip sector included nine attacks with petrol bombs, three attacks using pipe bombs, one attack using a grenade, three shooting attacks and seven incidents of rocket fire.
Two people were murdered and eight wounded in attacks during the month….
mortimer says
Rather than just reporting the news accurately and independently (what we’ve always been told is the job of journalism), journalists today are no more than ‘presstitutes’ working for wealthy oligarchs with a political agenda. They are most similar to the ‘propaganda-journalists’ of the old Soviet Pravda and Izvestiya.
Such journalists may actually be rabid Globalist-socialists plotting the next revolution and eagerly cooperating with the Kalergi Plan of European extinction. Fair enough, but their constant, breathless, smug self-righteousness is truly nauseating and their ignoring of facts (as well is ignorance of facts) is truly reprehensible. They don’t check and even if they know the facts, they print the globalist slant on everything through the use of constant euphemisms and dodges to avoid ever giving the impression that anything about Islam may be criticized. The dishonesty and corruption stinks to high heaven.
A misinformed and underinformed public cannot accurately assess the goals and methods of jihadists and that is what the Leftist are shielding from our view. The Leftists are using the Muslims to wreck Western civilization, so that their globalist leaders may grab more power from the people and completely crush any of the people’s freedoms forever. Another word for this approach of socialism plus crony capitalism is ‘fascism’. They pretend to fight fascism, when if fact they themselves fit the definition of it.
Trick_or_Treat says
“There is NO such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an ‘Independent Press’. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who DARES to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would NEVER appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my ‘honest opinion’ out of the paper I am connected with.
“Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for a new job. If I allowed my honest opinion to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone!
“The business of journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and race for his daily bread. You know it, and I know it, and so what folly is this ‘toasting an Independent Press’? We are tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are ‘jumping jacks’, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives, are all the property of other men.
“We are ‘Intellectual Prostitutes’! ”
– John Swinton – Former Chief of Staff of The New York Times – on being asked to deliver a ‘toast’ to a ‘Free and Independent Press, New York Press Club, 1953.
[It’s a long way since 1953, and it is not just America, but nothing has changed!]
Rarely says
The content of newspapers and, by extension, other media is correctly determined by the Editor and Publisher. They also control the opinions expressed. Having a “Free and Independent” press doesn’t mean that each journalist can get his/her particular (and sometimes “peculiar”) opinions published.
It’s only a problem if one holds to some sort of conspiracy theory where the publishers are all in it together or that the government of the day exercises control over content — all under the thumb of a mysterious group of “tyrannical globalist Marxist leftists” of course.
Possible, I suppose, but I suspect that trying to put all that together would be akin to trying to herd cats.
tom parry says
look at what the british govt. and their bbc have done to Tommy Robinson, who dares to tell them the truth. Locked away in jail twice for a maked up misdomener.
Rarely says
Quite a theory.
I think you are likely giving too much credit to the present day leftist movement, the so-called Globalists and a corrupted media. Historically the youth tend to grow up.
Rarely says
BTW.
Mortimer
The so-called “Kalergi Plan” for the destruction of Western Europe and the white race (???) is absolute hogwash. Period. The Monty Python crowd could have had a lot of fun with it. You have been reading far too many white supremacist web sites.
James Lincoln says
Let’s see, the BBC reported 3/149 = 2.01 % of Jihad terror attacks against Israel…
The other 98%, not so much.
Omission of important news events by the media is as bad as incorrect reporting. It’s like the stuff never happened…
Westman says
When government tax money runs the media, like BBC, ABC, and CBC, what you get is propaganda and social steering.
With the internet, their influence and audience, thankfully, is waning.
Rarely says
The BBC has been notoriously anti-Israel for years. Where’s the surprise that they overlooked 148 terrorist attacks on Israel?
MikeyParks says
The BBC doesn’t even report jihad attacks on British soil.
Jap says
To be fair about this. If the BBC reported every jihad incident they would have to start a seperate news channel!
jayell says
If you go to the BBC news website, they make a big thing about why you should trust the BBC. Maybe there’s something in that rumour that the BBC Affairs Department has been taken over by the Head of Comedy.
Angemon says
Three, eh? That’s three more than what I would expect…
R Russell says
I no longer use the BBC for ‘news’. I’m really annoyed I have to pay the license to be indoctrinated.
I go straight to the Israeli English language media to find out what is happening there.
somehistory says
Some years ago, this site reported that the BBC is basically under moslim control.
moslims don’t consider what they do as “terror” acts. moslims aren’t about to report on things that will make islam or their fellow moslims look bad…that means, no truth is allowed…and to say there are attacks of terror committed by moslims definitely would reveal the bad of islam.
Furthermore, if the attacks were reported, ti would show that Israel really is in a defensive mode, not offensive as they claim.
gravenimage says
UK: BBC reported only three of 149 jihad terror attacks against Israel in August
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This does not surprise.
Lydia Church says
“You can’t expect the BBC to interrupt its wall-to-wall coverage of the “far-right terror threat,” now, can you?”
: D
Hilarious!
I know, right? They are too busy with the “real” issues…
sort of like a dog who is more concerned with the police than the burglars!
gravenimage says
+1
Giacomo Latta says
”Two people were murdered and eight were wounded”
Come on, BBC Watch. You can’t expect the Beeb to use a term like ‘murder’. The truth must never be spoken. And if you want the Beeb to go all cheerleader, you must have a number far greater than 2.