Oh... er, Backtrack time at the BBC! On the BBC Breakfast News today (20th Oct), the article on the conflict in
Israel was only a minute long.
'...The BBC's international editor, Jeremy Bowen, said Lt Col Lerner's comments had been 'mischaracterising
what we were saying on air', adding: 'I was very careful in my choice of words, to attribute what both sides
were saying. And I didn't say it was an Israeli air strike.'...'
'...Critics said the BBC had allowed itself to be misled by the terrorist group. A BBC News social media post
had said: 'Hundreds of people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza', although it added the
attribution 'according to Palestinian officials'...'
'...Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner of Israeli Defence Forces told Today presenter Mishal Husain: 'You have a
huge responsibility in these times, as the BBC. 'Your listeners are dependent on you to get this information
and when you for several hours were broadcasting 'an Israeli strike on a hospital', you were doing them a
huge disservice.'
He accused the BBC of being willing to accept at face value what a terrorist organisation 'that butchers babies
in their bedrooms' says as fact, and added: 'It's decency. Basic decency.'...'
'...Last night IDF spokesman Major Doron Spielman went further, questioning the death toll arising from the blast.
He said: 'Hamas makes Islamic State look almost reasonable. The 500 people that Hamas is claiming died – I
want to be very clear – we have already shown satellite footage of the hospital attack and there were no rockets
on the hospital.
'The rocket fell on a parking lot next to a hospital. Were 500 people killed in that parking lot – were five people
killed in that parking lot? No one knows. 'When all is said and done and the truth comes out we are going to find
out that they lied about the rocket. No one is going to find 500 bodies there.'...'
Daily Mail:
Israel was only a minute long.
'...The BBC's international editor, Jeremy Bowen, said Lt Col Lerner's comments had been 'mischaracterising
what we were saying on air', adding: 'I was very careful in my choice of words, to attribute what both sides
were saying. And I didn't say it was an Israeli air strike.'...'
'...Critics said the BBC had allowed itself to be misled by the terrorist group. A BBC News social media post
had said: 'Hundreds of people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza', although it added the
attribution 'according to Palestinian officials'...'
'...Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner of Israeli Defence Forces told Today presenter Mishal Husain: 'You have a
huge responsibility in these times, as the BBC. 'Your listeners are dependent on you to get this information
and when you for several hours were broadcasting 'an Israeli strike on a hospital', you were doing them a
huge disservice.'
He accused the BBC of being willing to accept at face value what a terrorist organisation 'that butchers babies
in their bedrooms' says as fact, and added: 'It's decency. Basic decency.'...'
'...Last night IDF spokesman Major Doron Spielman went further, questioning the death toll arising from the blast.
He said: 'Hamas makes Islamic State look almost reasonable. The 500 people that Hamas is claiming died – I
want to be very clear – we have already shown satellite footage of the hospital attack and there were no rockets
on the hospital.
'The rocket fell on a parking lot next to a hospital. Were 500 people killed in that parking lot – were five people
killed in that parking lot? No one knows. 'When all is said and done and the truth comes out we are going to find
out that they lied about the rocket. No one is going to find 500 bodies there.'...'
Daily Mail:
Read The TV Guide, yer' don't need a TV.