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Dr. Gary W. Buffington's avatar

Paul, Your cartoon on media coverage of this war is sadly not new. Currently, the BBC is quite literally tying itself in knots trying to show equivalency between events in Israel and in Gaza. In particular, BBC is being excoriated for not referring to the Hamas barbarians ad "terrorists" as these three disparate sources all indicate.

https://variety.com/2023/politics/global/bbc-israel-hamas-terrorists-backlash-1235750630/

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67076341

https://www.ajc.org/news/what-to-know-about-media-bias-in-coverage-of-hamas-attack-on-israel

Tragically this level of journalistic malfeasance has been going on for decades and shows no signs of self-correcting no matter how horrific the acts of cruelty inflicted on innocent victims by Hamas and other jihadist terrorist groups. As to why this is I do not know -- I would like to think that these major US, UK, and European news agencies are not staffed with rabid Jew-hating anti-Semites but that, sadly, is one plausible conclusion based on decades of Middle East reporting. There is a narrative warfare article in here waiting to be written.

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