BBC Sophistry: Palestinian Fact; Israeli Claim

June 17, 2008, 11:48 pm
  


 

 

By Andrew L. Jaffee

It is not news that the BBC is biased in its coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. It is nonetheless instructive to analyze the subtle wording the Beeb uses in its editorializing — in news stories. Today, information about Palestinian casualties as a result of Israeli operations were reported as a self-evident fact, while attacks by Palestinians against Israeli civilians were specifically cited only as a claim made by the Jewish state’s army:

Over the past seven days, more than 20 people have died in Gaza as a result of Israeli military action. In the same period, the Israeli army says that Palestinian militants have fired more than 90 rockets and mortars into Israel.

Fair and balanced?

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