BBC’s Jeremy Bowen admits he ‘got it wrong’ in Gaza hospital report but has ‘no regrets’
BBC’s Jeremy Bowen admits he ‘got it wrong’ in Gaza hospital report but has ‘no regrets’
International editor says he doesn't 'feel particularly bad about' his inaccuracies
International editor says he doesn't 'feel particularly bad about' his inaccuracies
BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen admits he ‘got it wrong’ in his coverage saying the Gaza Al-Alhi hospital was "flattened" (it was never even bombed), but still said he “doesn’t regret one thing” about his reporting and doesn't feel particularly bad.
His inaccuracies: blaming Israel for the al-Shifa missile attack, and referring to the hospital as, "flattened."
I've seen people repeating these inaccuracies constantly on Lemmy.
80He didn't blame the attach on Israel. He did say it had been flattened.
9His claim of it being flattened caused the BBC to report that it was likely Israel who did it because they were the only ones who had ordinance powerful enough to level a hospital:
In the first story about the hospital on the BBC on Oct 17, correspondent Jon Donnison suggested Israel was behind the blast. Speaking shortly after 8pm on BBC News, he said: “It’s hard to see what else this could be, really, given the size of the explosion, other than an Israeli airstrike or several airstrikes.”
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I admit, I was surprised at how many people are indifferent to the truth (at best) regarding this conflict. I know some people in real life who see a lot of antisemitism in modern American society and I used to think they were paranoid but now I'm not sure what else could be motivating this sort of motivated reasoning.
8The problem is, that Israel made it relatively easy to fall for these stories by doing similar things for real in the past.
So you've got a credible source (BBC) reporting something that's not really unheard of (i.e. kind of plausible) and that's happening to align with what you've already suspected. Bam, rumor is born.
BTW, you had the same mechanism shortly after the attacks with the "Hamas beheaded babies" stories.
24You don't know what could possibly cause people to have an anti-Israel bias other than antisemitism? Maybe a history book?
15Beheaded babies and the IDF saying “we have lied before but not this time.” really muddies the water.
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Do you mean the Al-Alhi Baptist missile or did one happen to Al-shifa now too?
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Also this title sucks ass, not alluding to what was wrong and leaving your mind to fill it in
71Dude shares the name of an ex. The headline threw me for a loop.
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Welcome to Whose Truth is it Anyway?, where the news is made up and the facts don't matter.
26"Should I accept responsibility? No, I'll just double down."
25"Just a mild oopsie and all. No harm (for me)."
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Oh well as long as you don't feel bad about it man
20To be clear Bowen did not from my recollection say that the strike was from Israeli. He did, however, incorrectly say that the hispital had been "flattened" based in drone footage he was looking at on screen.
17I mean technically yes but it's one of those things where you're saying Israel did it without saying it directly. Its really not much better.
-3And Trump did not tell the traitors to stormthe building, amiright?
Jesus, the way you Hamas bootlickers refuse to listen to anything that disagrees with your agenda reminds me of the MAGA crowd. In fact it is the same thing, just on the left.
-7I was correcting a factual inaccuracy. If you can find anything in my post history that suggests that I support Hamas, then feel free to point it out. Otherwise - zip it.
I am, however a fan of the BBC - and while it is far from perfect, I'm happy to defend it where the Telepgraph gets it wrong.
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Maybe lemmy.ml will unban me now that they can see I was right all along.
12I wonder how all those cringy hamas whiners feel now? If they even think about how wrong they were.
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International editor doesn't understand how media works.
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