I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion.

Mods, feel free to remove if this is not newsy enough.

  • mr47@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    So, basically: people performed atrocities. Are they evil? Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t, the BBC has no idea whether it is evil to perform atrocities. Right.

    • atetulo@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      So basically, you can’t read above a 2nd grade level.

      BBC is saying they report the facts and let people make their own judgements. I know this might be hard for your biased mind to understand, but the word ‘terrorist’ has been thrown around so much it’s practically meaningless. Heck, even when it should be applied (American terrorists shooting substations), it isn’t. It’s a political term at this point, nothing more.

      You’re trying to advocate for news outlets to tell us how to think instead of showing us information, which is shitty journalism for idiots.

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        11 months ago

        Show the information that this was a terrorist attack, because it was. That’s an indisputable fact. Indiscriminately killing, maiming, torturing and raping civilians to spread terror. That is terrorism.

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      11 months ago

      No, they will report on the attrocities committed. Is it important for you for the BBC to tell you whether the attrocities are evil or not?

    • supercheesecake@aussie.zone
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      11 months ago

      They are saying they do not use language that makes judgement, because that is not what they do. They are a neutral reporter of what is happening in the world (ie the news).

      Everyone laments that “news” has been overrun by opinion journalism that tries to influence left or right. This is what “just news” looks like.