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https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/marvel-sabra-superhero-israel-shira-haas-b2166383.html
This should be of interest — especially note para 3: clearly, the Israelis are launching missiles just because they can, they don’t need a reason. Palestinian missiles, of course, were only launched in response, and it’s just too bad they didn’t kill anyone!
And I love how Israel’s ‘apartheid system” is just an unarguable fact.
I’m guessing this is an opinion piece, but the Independent hasn’t exerted any editorial control.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-66085089
Written commentary by Paul Adams appear biased. They attempt to justify attacks on Israelis living settlements and call the terrorists “gunmen” in an attempt to give them more legitimacy. He also talks about Israel’s “inexorable Israeli colonisation of the West Bank” which is just false.
Is there any body in the U.K. that handles complaints about news reporters on TV? I want to lodge a complaint about Anna Botting of Sky News.
Thanks
Phil Fine
Arad, Israel
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/complaints
Between 8:30 and nine this morning, Tue., Oct., 24, Israel time, CNN ran a report from a Beirut correspondents about human suffering in Gaza. But the correspondent failed to ask any Gazans why they allowed Hamas, Islamic Jihad, et. al. to burrow so deeply into the fabric of Gazan society.
I’d like to raise this issue with CNN. But I failed to get the name of the correspondent. Nor can I seem to find a name and email for CNN’s complaint department.
Perhaps you can help me.
Thanks
Phil Fine
Arad, Israel
https://edition.cnn.com/feedback/politicsapp
Here’s the boiler plate response I got from Sky News regarding my complaint about its “correspondent” (sic) Anna Botting:
Good evening Phil,
Thank you for your email regarding a recent interview on Sky News. As a news organisation it is our role to ask sometimes difficult questions of those in positions of authority.
Sky News has heard a full range of opinions about this news story, and does not take a position on this or any other story.
We are comfortable that we gave Mr Regev a respectful forum to put across his points and we look forward to having him back on Sky News as the war continues.
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us.
Best wishes
Chris
Sky Viewer Relations
Sky news has become anti-truth almost to the level of the BBC, after being only slightly so for a long time.
They now publish “explainers” all the time. These are full of 1/4 truths and leave out the most pertinent information that an “explainer” should include.
Perhaps someone can write point-by-point responses/corrections to these “explainers”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9XF39yjgU
Look at this interview between Piers Morgan and Gabor Mate, a Canadian Jew who’s long been critical of Israel.
This morning (14th Oct 2024) at approx. 8:15-8:30 AM (Australian Eastern Standard Time) ABC News Breakfast Team interviewed a dual Australian-Lebanese citizen who talked about his father’s evacuation from Lebanon. He said his father was from the Beirut region, but later changed his story to say his father had a vineyard in the south.
He was interviewed by a very sympathetic ABC journalist who did not attempt to fact-check or push back against his incendiary, misleading and at times outright libellous statements and accusations against Israel, at one point lobbing the “genocide” accusation against Israel. He made claims that Israel was targeting civilians and civilian areas in Beirut, that Israel had dropped more tonnage of bombs than Hiroshima and alleged that Israel was deliberately targeting civilians. He accused Israel of “genocide” in Gaza. The interviewee, and even more damningly, the journalist interviewing him ignored the fact that Hezbollah was bombing Israel and deliberately targeting Israeli civilians, as well as the fact that many Israelis in the north have had to evacuate similarly to lebanese civilians. He only mentioned hezbollah once, only to refer to them as part of the Lebanese government coalition and political fabric of Lebanese society. He also said quote; “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”.
Much of the pro-Israel media watchdog scene (HonestReporting, CAMERA/CAMERA-UK) has paid plenty of attention to BBC, PBS/NPR and even CBC anti-Israel bias during the Israel-Hamas war but have a glaring blind spot when it comes to the Australian Public Broadcaster (The ABC). This blindspot is in dire need of being addressed because its not just this incident that has been problematic.
There is a well-organised Pro-Palestine/Anti-Israel network in Australia backed by Al Jazeera and Australian domestic fringe left-wing media (like the Guardian Australia, Green-Left Weekly etc) as well as the ABC’s own journalists who have tried to paint the picture of the ABC having a “pro-Israel bias” (despite the broadcaster having an extensive track record of being the exact opposite), in addition to mass reports and complaints from activists skewing the complaints system despite the complaints being copy-pasted and uniform.