Geriatric Gardener<p>“The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows”</p><p>by Jonathan Cook on Substack </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBC5Live" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBC5Live</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBCRadio4" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBCRadio4</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://press.coop/@guardian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>guardian</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://press.coop/@Independent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Independent</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://press.coop/@thetimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thetimes</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@UKLabour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>UKLabour</span></a></span></p><p>“Once again the UK state broadcaster goes missing in action – this time at the discovery of a mass grave of emergency workers executed by Israel”</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/the-graver-israels-atrocities-in?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/jonathan</span><span class="invisible">cook/p/the-graver-israels-atrocities-in?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StateBroadcaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateBroadcaster</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Silence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Silence</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Complicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Complicity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DirectParticipation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectParticipation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zionism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Barbarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barbarity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BloodLust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BloodLust</span></a></p>
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Geriatric Gardener<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@IndyRichard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>IndyRichard</span></a></span> </p><p>Nope! Not surprised at all!</p><p>Lest we forget:</p><p>As historian AJP Taylor wryly remarked, the BBC’s first Director General [Baron John] Reith had<br>"managed to preserve the technical independence of the BBC by suppressing news which the government did not want published. This set a pattern for the future: the vaunted independence of the BBC was secure so long as it was NOT exercised."</p><p>Not so <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBC5Live" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBC5Live</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBCRadio4" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBCRadio4</span></a></span>?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bias</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StateBroadcaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateBroadcaster</span></a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>Veteran UK anti-Zionist campaigner, Tony <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Greenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenstein</span></a>, eviscerates the BBCs coverage of the Gaza genocide in his most recent blogpost!</p><p><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/03/in-1930s-bbc-appeased-and-even_20.html?m=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/03/in</span><span class="invisible">-1930s-bbc-appeased-and-even_20.html?m=1</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBC5Live" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBC5Live</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBCRadio4" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBCRadio4</span></a></span></p><p>“In the 1930s the BBC Appeased and Even Attempted to Justify the Nazi Regime’s Anti-Semitism – Today It Loves Israel and Zionism - Has Anything Changed?”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bias</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Management</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Consent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consent</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RaffiBerg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaffiBerg</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/InformationWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InformationWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StateBroadcaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateBroadcaster</span></a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>Seriously … what’s the point of BBC News & Current Affairs?</p><p>“The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a>’s Idea of Impartiality is a balance between the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Right</span></a> & the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a>: When the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a>'s Director General Tim <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Davie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Davie</span></a> says ‘We are absolutely driven by a passion for impartiality’ it’s like Hitler saying he was driven by a passion for Jews” </p><p>- quoting veteran UK anti-Zionist campaigner Tony <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Greenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenstein</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBC5Live" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBC5Live</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBCRadio4" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBCRadio4</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-bbcs-idea-of-impartiality-is.html?m=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/03/th</span><span class="invisible">e-bbcs-idea-of-impartiality-is.html?m=1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StateBroadcaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateBroadcaster</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zionist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Affiliate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Affiliate</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Complicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Complicity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bias</span></a></p>
Droopy_McCool<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://union.place/@CEMedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CEMedia</span></a></span> Unsurprising to me that, as you report, the <span class="h-card"><a href="https://c.im/@BBC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBC</span></a></span> initially seemed very reluctant to report <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zahawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zahawi</span></a>’s tax avoidance! As AJP Taylor wryly remarked, [former Director General] Reith had<br>"managed to preserve the technical independence of the BBC by suppressing news which the government did not want published. This set a pattern for the future: the vaunted independence of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> was secure so long as it was NOT exercised" <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBCPropaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCPropaganda</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EstablishmentMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EstablishmentMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StateBroadcaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateBroadcaster</span></a></p>
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