I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion.

Mods, feel free to remove if this is not newsy enough.

  • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    301 year ago

    The BBC answers to UK law at the end of the day

    Actually no, the role of journalism isn’t just to parrot and re-express the views of the current government from where they are based.

    • @steventhedev@lemmy.world
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      -141 year ago

      I agree they shouldn’t parrot the views of the UK government blindly. But the BBC are not above the law. Stop that nonsense.

      Hamas is a terrorist organization. They organize and commit acts of intentional violence against civilians with the express purpose of spreading terror.

      Calling them anything else other than that is a disservice to the readers of the BBC and implicitly condones their actions by not labelling them as such.