Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumPilger ~ As Gaza Is Savaged Again, Understanding The BBC’s Role Requires More Than Sentiment
By John Pilger
Source: johnpilger.com
Friday, November 23, 2012
http://www.zcommunications.org/as-gaza-is-savaged-again-understanding-the-bbc-s-role-requires-more-than-sentiment-by-john-pilger
Unknown to the public, Reith had been the prime ministers speech writer. Ambitious to become Viceroy of India, he ensured the BBC became an evangelist of imperial power, with impartiality duly suspended whenever that power was threatened. This principle has applied to the BBCs coverage of every colonial war of the modern era: from the covered-up genocide in Indonesia and suppression of eyewitness film of the American bombing of North Vietnam to support for the illegal Blair/Bush invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the now familiar echo of Israeli propaganda whenever that lawless state abuses its captive, Palestine. This reached a nadir in 2009 when, terrified of Israeli reaction, the BBC refused to broadcast a combined charities appeal for the people of Gaza, half of whom are children, most of them malnourished and traumatised by Israeli attacks. The United Nations Rapporteur, Richard Falk, has likened Israels blockade of Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto under siege by the Nazis. Yet, to the BBC, Gaza like the 2010 humanitarian relief flotilla murderously attacked by Israeli commandos largely presents a public relations problem for Israel and its US sponsor.
Mark Regev, Israels chief propagandist, seemingly has a place reserved for him near the top of BBC news bulletins. In 2010, when I pointed this out to Fran Unsworth, now elevated to director of news, she strongly objected to the description of Regev as a propagandist, adding, Its not our job to go out and appoint the Palestinean spokesperson.
With similar logic, Unsworths predecessor, Helen Boaden, described the BBCs reporting of the criminal carnage in Iraq as based on the fact that Bush has tried to export democracy and human rights to Iraq. To prove her point, Boaden supplied six A4 pages of verifiable lies from Bush and Tony Blair. That ventriloquism is not journalism seemed not to occur to either woman.
shira
(30,109 posts)Hamas would not attack Israel the way they do if their strategy of sacrificing Palestinian civilians (as shields) didn't work so effectively. They can only pull these shenanigans off with a willing media partner helping the Palestinian leadership to manipulate world opinion.
Pilger is a booster of Hamas and willing accomplice to their victimization of Palestinians. He gets off on Palestinian misery just like Hamas does, in order to bash Israel in the cognitive warfare arena. Pilger and his ilk gladly assist Hamas in displaying Palestinian dead for maximum effect.
To sum it up, Hamas intentionally places rockets in schools & hospitals in order to use civilians as shields, knowing that any civilian death can be pinned on Israel. Never on them. Who would be ghoulish enough to do that to their own people? Worse, which fiends would actually support, enable, and be a willing accomplice to such a disgusting practice? Hamas are shameless and Pilger along with his ilk are a disgrace for supporting them.
John Pilger is one of the few reporters that are not tied to the corporate media. His reportage provides the opportunity to hear the vantage point of people that's rarely heard. To say he "gets off" on Palestinian misery is perverse.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)IMO he is using ME issues for his own personal aggrandizement and self promotion.
shira
(30,109 posts)Besides being a supporter of Hamas and apologist for their war crimes, he has stated:
a) "the Zionist state remains the cause of more regional grievance and sheer terror than all the Muslim states combined.
b) He argued an attack on Gaza was a "final solution to the problem of the Palestinians" and that it was akin to "Nazi strangulation of the Warsaw ghetto". What Israel does is "genocide"....
more here:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/John+Pilger+on+Israel/Palestine:+a+critical+analysis+of+his+views+and...-a0198354454
He's so far left as to be indistinguishable from the fascist, kkk/neo-nazi far right.
I can almost feel your hate for anyone reporting the truth.
It burns !!!
shira
(30,109 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 25, 2012, 08:11 AM - Edit history (1)
kooljerk666
(776 posts)Just workin for everyone but the truth when anyone on Downing ST or in the DC beltway is uncomfortable with anything happening it gets ignored or turned 180 degrees.
I watched something on sex/tv music guy/ sex scandal & understand it rocked the country, they lost most creds with me longs ago.
Dr Who on BBC America is cool once in a while.........
Daleks conquer and destroy!!! Daleks conquer and destroy!!! Daleks conquer and destroy!!! Daleks conquer and destroy!!!