| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | |
| Posted by: | Steven Rose | |
| Date/Time: | 12/04/26 01:10:00 |
| Yes, Jonathan, Fergal Keane reports with great empathy, but his empathy is selective. In the case of Gaza his empathy was all for the Palestinians civilians caught up in the conflict but not for the Israelis trying to recover their hostages and to neutralise a genocidal terrorist group which had carried out a dreadful massacre, which they threatened to repeat 'again and again'. Night after night, while sitting in Jerusalem, he provided empathetic voiceovers for footage of Gaza filmed by reporters under the control of Hamas. But he never thought to mention this fact to the viewers, a clear breach of the BBC's rules on impartiality. Furthermore the Palestinian civilians interviewed in Fergal Keane's reports were never asked what they thought about Hamas. Anyone watching might be forgiven for thinking that Hamas did not exist and Gaza was entirely populated by innocent civilians deliberately targeted by ruthless Israelis. Of course those who share this point of view (who include most of the staff at the BBC as well as several contributors to Putney Forum) would not detect any bias, conscious or unconscious. They would conclude that Fergal Keane was simply telling the truth and doing an excellent job. And the other night he was doing the same thing in Teheran, empathising with the families traumatised by the American-Israeli missile strikes, but there was no mention in his report of the families who lost their loved ones in the January massacre. But again, those whose antipathy to Trump and Netanyahu outweighs their hostility to the Iranian regime would not be too concerned. |
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| The biggest danger to Western civilisation - Iran, 'Trumpism' or Islamism ? | 10/04/26 17:27:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:The biggest danger to Western civilisation - Iran, 'Trumpism' or Islamism ? | 10/04/26 21:41:00 | Michael Brigo |
| Re:The biggest danger to Western civilisation - Iran, 'Trumpism' or Islamism ? | 10/04/26 21:58:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Re:Re:The biggest danger to Western civilisation - Iran, 'Trumpism' or Islamism ? | 10/04/26 22:59:00 | Philippa Bond |
| Reply | 10/04/26 23:08:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 10/04/26 23:49:00 | Steven Rose |
| Reply | 11/04/26 00:09:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 11/04/26 00:37:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 00:57:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 08:28:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Reply | 11/04/26 08:36:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 11/04/26 09:16:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 09:26:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 09:27:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 10:21:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 11:04:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 11:10:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 11:13:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 11:49:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 12:43:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Reply | 11/04/26 12:50:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 11/04/26 13:51:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 18:19:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 18:20:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 18:51:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 21:30:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Reply | 11/04/26 23:32:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Reply | 11/04/26 23:43:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 21:02:00 | Lucille Grant |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 21:17:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 21:42:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 11/04/26 23:52:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 12/04/26 01:10:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 12/04/26 10:19:00 | Gerry Boyce |