BBC Bias: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla

CORRECTION: At 4:18 the words should have been "...with one of the highest unemployment rates in the world."

Whatever happened on the Mavi Marmara on the morning of May 31st, 2010, the BBC's Panorama team failed to give a balanced view of it in its so-called documentary, Death in the Med. Even the title sounds more like that of a paperback mystery, rather than a serious analysis of Israel's worst atrocity since Operation Cast Lead.

Documentaries should be truthful and informative and expand our understanding of situations and events; their content should be rigorously checked for errors in statements which are presented as facts and conjecture, and the personal opinions of their writers and presenters should be explicitly identified as such. But Death in the Med failed any test based on those parameters.

The BBC's television and radio services reach an audience measured in hundreds of millions, world-wide, but are primarily funded by taxes and license fees paid by the British public; not by Israel or its influential friends. Panorama's biased and often untruthful Treatment of Israel's worst atrocity since Operation Cast Lead should trigger a public enquiry about who is really in charge of one of the most influential broadcasters on the planet.

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[worldphilosopher101]

It is truly amazing that you are so good at what you do that you would actually clarify the sentence about unemployment. Sir, you are too good for your own good. In a place like Gaza, statistical accuracy is impossible. What was said first in your video may well have been the truth and you would not have been irresponsible to simply leave it there uncorrected. But again, applause. My request is for you to do a piece about who possibly runs the BBC. Please, sir, give us a name.

[alawson911]

@worldphilosopher101

I agree with you about statistical accuracy being impossible. The problem was that I had misread an e-mail from the indefatigable Ken O'Keefe, who lived in Gaza, at the time and was on the Mavi Marmara, so I felt obliged to make the correction, because the error was mine not his.

As to who actually controls the BBC, it would be almost impossible to discover or to verify that. It certainly doesn't have a lot to do with how it is funded, by license fees.

[IdaSputum]

"We found ourselves alone and we jumped off the bow into the water" - how very odd for people being imprisoned,

They were then "Rescued" from being released?!? Thank you for exposing the glaring holes and Zionist slant in the BBC so-called 'documentary'

[alawson911]

@IdaSputum , @truthlogic1, @mslim4life, @Cabronosidad

Thank you for your positive comments.

[datapolo]

I just read the BBC's joke of a report on complaints about the Panorama programme - Internal audit of such complaints is clearly not satisfactory!

[alawson911]

@datapolo

What a joke. Editorial Standards Board ESC = ESCape, on computers. Get yourself out of trouble. And not a word about Jane Corbin's husbands role as former chairman of Conservatives Friends of Israel. A disgrace.

The BBC, effect, condones Israel's barbarity.

[SolarFireflies]

This is why if the mainstream media won't report honestly, we need videos like this.

[1czechit1]

What a joke, this so called documentary mentions Najd without expressing the fact that the Arabs from Najd aided the Egyptian army massacring the Jewish Kibbutz Yad Mordechai in 1948. Also no mention of Arabs ethnically cleansing Jews in Hebron, Jerusalem, Bet Haarava, and Gush Etzion. No mention of Arabs in Israel's army, and claiming that Kassams and Katyushas have no explosives! WOW, talking about dishonesty. No reason to waste time on this piece of propaganda. (and no mention khybar chants?

[truthlogic1]

great analysis of the Bias BBC reporting

[mslim4life]

An extremely accurate report of what really happened, it is clearly biased in favour of the israeli army.

Both the parties views have not been considered and placed in front of the viewers so that they may make their own mind up who was responsible for the outcome of that day. Politicians do not listen so these ppl took it upon themselves to break the siege and take aid for the much needy Palestinian people. 9 deaths occurred and this lady has no respect for them.

No one anywhere in the world

[Cabronosidad]

Excellent video. I missed this prog. when it was 1st. broadcast & would definitely have complained had I seen it go out.

It's another sad example of the BBC surrendering to Zionist pressure. Remember Tony Benn berating them for refusing to put up the address for the Gaza Appeal? That to me spoke volumes about their risk-averse cringing attitude.

Given her husband's affiliations Corbin should never have been let anywhere near this topic - regardless of the political bias of her script.