A report claimed BBCCoverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict is heavily biased against Israel.
Daily Telegraph The newspaper writes that the reportBased on a four-month analysis of the broadcaster’s output on television, radio and other platforms, it says the BBC breached its own editorial guidelines of impartiality more than 1,500 times during the height of the Israel-Hamas conflict, and declares it “deeply worrying”. Patterns of Prejudice.”
Former BBC executive Danny Cohen called for an independent inquiry into news coverage after the publication of the report, compiled by a team of 20 lawyers and 20 data scientists, which analyzed nine million words of BBC output using artificial intelligence.
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The BBC has questioned the method of compilation of the report, which currently stands alone in its judgment of bias against the corporation. The BBC has reached a deadline for a statement on these aspects.
There were earlier protests outside the BBC’s headquarters in London by people angered by the broadcaster’s description of Hamas as a “resistance movement”.
In October 2023, BBC world affairs editor John Simpson explained It was not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn.
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