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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 3 months ago

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@WalterMenteth
> BBC at risk of losing trust over Israel-Palestine, Ofcom boss says

"Losing"? FFS, holocaust survivors are speaking out against IDF violations of Palestinian human rights;

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25309584.holocaust-survivor-stephen-kapos-speaks-gaza-genocide/

Meanwhile BBC heads are censuring and censoring artists for standing with them. As well as censoring journalists for reporting on the IDF atrocities in Palestine, and their unprovoked invasions of a number of neighbouring countries. WTF?!

#NewsMedia #BBC #Gaza

@Pamela1960

Billy Watt

@BenartyComputer@mastodon.scot replied · 3 months ago

@strypey @WalterMenteth @Pamela1960

They're not trusted in Scotland anyway, they're seen as the official opposition who will lie, obscure and ignore

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 3 months ago

@BenartyComputer
> [BBC are] not trusted in Scotland anyway, they're seen as the official opposition who will lie, obscure and ignore

Are there other public media that are trusted in Scotland?

@WalterMenteth @Pamela1960

stony kark

@aapis@mastodon.world replied · 3 months ago

@strypey BBC fuckin sucks

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 3 months ago

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The BBC broadcast censored an artistic statement at a huge, long-running arts event. They've even been attacked for not censoring another one on the same issue at the same event. If BBC agree to broadcast Glastonbury, and the programmers there decide it's legitimate to platform Bob Vylan or KneeCap, that's not for the BBC to judge or censor.

If you don't want to broadcast it, fine. Beep F-bombs if you must. But you don't get to pick and choose based on ideology or political expediency.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 3 months ago

Thinking some more on the artistic freedom of #Glastonbury and its performers, and the press freedom #BCC has to broadcast whatever truly goes down, without fear or favour. Whether or not it has the spine to use it.

Legacy media clearly haven't learned the lesson that Indymedia and other online news networks started teaching them after 9/11. If you fail to report on something, your lies of omission will be exposed. Everyone knows BBC censored Glastonbury, and exactly what it was they omitted.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 3 months ago

Me:
> Everyone knows BBC censored Glastonbury, and exactly what it was they omitted

Streisand Effect 101.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 3 months ago

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When Holocaust survivors are implying that the Gaza genocide is *worse* than the Holocaust;

"Why in small ways? Because, he explains with signature empathy, he survived: 'Our experience, even with the fighting thrown in, and the war moving through us, was not as bad as what I can see the Gazans going through'.”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25309584.holocaust-survivor-stephen-kapos-speaks-gaza-genocide/

... and you're a public broadcaster siding against the people of Gaza, you're clearly on the wrong side of history.

Heads must roll.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 3 months ago

Also, why is @npr publishing Alice Through the Looking Glass war propaganda as if it's news?

"With a series of powerful blows to Iran and its proxies, Israel has reasserted its military dominance in the Middle East and reshaped the region less than two years after it was caught off guard in a surprise attack."

#GregMyre, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/28/nx-s1-5440332/with-a-series-of-wars-israels-military-reshapes-the-mideast

"Greg Myre is a national security correspondent with a focus on the intelligence community ..."

https://www.npr.org/people/348766539/greg-myre

Ah.

#NPR #genocide

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