BBC and World Media Ignore Rocket Attacks on Israel, but Report on IDF Responses [View all]
Because Israel must be the aggressor, Hamas the victim. IOW, Hamasbara....
...The BBC News English-language website did not provide any coverage of the missile attack against Israeli civilians.
The BBC Arabic website, however, produced two reports — here and here — about the Israeli response to the missile fire. The second report and the website’s homepage both used a photograph of a water tower allegedly damaged during the Israeli response to the missile attack.
However, as noted at the Israellycool blog, photographs showing the same damage to the same water tower were published by AFP nearly a year ago.
This latest missile attack from the Gaza Strip is the eighth such incident to have taken place so far in 2016. The BBC has not reported on any of those attacks on its English-language website, but has covered the Israeli response to most of them on its Arabic-language site.
...The same pattern of reporting has been evident since the end of the conflict between Israel and terrorists in the Gaza Strip in 2014, meaning that English-speaking BBC audiences — including its funding public — are not receiving the services pledged to them in the corporation’s public purposes.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/08/23/bbc-and-world-media-ignore-rocket-attacks-on-israel-but-report-on-idf-responses/
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