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BBC Media Action: Britain’s overseas info warfare unit
Leaked documents reveal how a shadowy BBC unit is “embedding” staff in foreign media outlets to “contest the information space” and generate “behaviour change” in favor of London’s geopolitical objectives. Continue reading
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How western media helped turn Israel’s genocide into ‘fake news’
Israel’s intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC Continue reading
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The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists
The media are legitimising the murder of journalists by Israel – and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of western colonial control in the Middle East Continue reading
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Burying Genocide – The BBC, Gaza And The Role Of The UK
One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person would deny that the public has a right to know what the government is doing in our name. But, over and above this basic requirement, a responsible public-service broadcaster should also scrutinise the… Continue reading
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Genocide in Gaza: The BBC’s Self-Inflicted ‘Trust Crisis’
BBC News regularly proclaims its supposed editorial principles of fearless, independent, impartial, fair and accurate journalism. In a January 2023 speech to the Whitehall & Industry Group in London, then BBC Chairman Richard Sharp boasted that BBC journalism is the ‘global gold standard’ of credible news reporting. Continue reading
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Starvation in Gaza is so bad even the BBC is covering it – and reporting it all wrong
The BBC’s role is not to keep viewers informed. It’s to persuade them a clear crime against humanity by Israel is, in fact, highly complicated geopolitics they cannot hope to understand. You can tell how bad levels of starvation now are in Gaza – as the population there begins the third month of a complete… Continue reading
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The pincer movement against the BBC
So the BBC Director General, Tim Davie has agreed there should be an independent inquiry into the corporation’s coverage of what they will not call the genocide in Palestine. Continue reading
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Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — Media Lens Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Ten British Commanders Who Shaped the World’, ‘Rifles: Six Years with Wellington’s Legendary Sharpshooters’ and ‘The Tank War: The British Band of Brothers’. He has… Continue reading
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‘A Dagger To The Heart’: BBC Credibility Nosedives Even Further
The BBC’s withdrawal of the powerful documentary, ‘Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’, epitomises how much the UK’s national broadcaster is beholden to the Israel lobby. Continue reading
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Former IOF Chief held secret UK media meetings to spin Gaza war coverage
A Declassified UK investigation has uncovered secret meetings between former IOF Chief Aviv Kohavi and top British media executives, including editors from The Guardian, BBC, and Financial Times. Backed by “Israel’s” military and foreign ministry, these talks aimed to shape Western coverage of “Israel’s” war on Gaza as global outrage over the Israeli atrocities grew.… Continue reading
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Orange Peace
In January 1961, in his farewell address, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that, as a result of the Second World War and the ensuing Cold War, the United States had ‘been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions’. Continue reading
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The BBC deleted its own documentary about Gaza following pressure from the Israel Lobby in the UK
Saturday, 22 February 2025 — MintPress News The documentary, that is narrated by a child in the Gaza Strip, takes the viewer through a journey on surviving the Israeli onslaught. However, the Israel Lobby and Zionist activists began immediately accusing the BBC of publishing “Hamas” propaganda. In order to appease the powerful lobby, the BBC Continue reading
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Media Silent Over Israel’s Use Of The ‘Hannibal Directive’ on 7 October 2023
In an interview with Israeli television last Thursday, Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defence minister, confirmed that the so-called ‘Hannibal Directive’ was implemented by Israeli military forces on 7 October 2023, the day of attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian fighters. Continue reading
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Manufacturing Consent For Regime Change In Syria
Monitoring corporate media performance for 25 years – week after week, war after war – has done little to diminish our dismay at the robotic automaticity of ‘mainstream’ enthusiasm for US-authored regime change. Continue reading
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News from Nowhere: The abuse of power
The sad thing is that, by coddling, spoiling, and pandering to its talent, and by failing to purge a culture of complacency, the British Broadcasting Corporation has brought all these troubles upon itself. British broadcasting and in particular the BBC have in recent years been hit by an apparently endless series of scandals involving the… Continue reading
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Disappearing Genocide: BBC ‘Balance’ Between Perpetrator Israel And Palestinian Victims After Damning Amnesty Report
Imagine that the world’s largest and most respected human rights group issued a report detailing Russian war crimes in Ukraine and concluding that Russia was committing genocide. Western news media would devote massive coverage to the report. Newspaper and website headlines, together with television and radio broadcasts, would highlight Russia’s genocide and the bitter denunciations… Continue reading
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‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media
Propaganda often works in subtle ways. Consider a BBC News headline on its website on 3 October: ‘Israeli air strike kills 18 people in occupied West Bank’ This was noteworthy in that, for once, the BBC had made it clear that Israel was responsible for killing people, rather than using a contorted form of wording… Continue reading
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How the BBC prepares people for Israeli crimes against Gaza and Lebanon
How the BBC prepares people for Israel’s crimes against Hezbollah and Lebanon: 9 Tactics 🔖The BBC shifts public attention from Israel’s large-scale crimes in Gaza and Lebanon to Hezbollah’s limited attacks. Continue reading
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Defence correspondents: the journalistic wing of the military?
An analysis of broadcasters’ online coverage of defence spending and strategy since Keir Starmer won the election shows that reporting is virtually 100% in line with the government’s own priorities. Critical voices, where they are included, are entirely from the right. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 