Press TV – Dec 29, 2024
BBC staffers have revealed that editor Raffi Berg exercises full control over the outlet’s online reporting on Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, ensuring all coverage favors Israel, according to a new report.
Drop Site News, in a report published on December 28, said it spoke to 13 current and former staffers who said that the BBC’s coverage consistently dehumanizes Palestinians and ignores Israeli crimes in Gaza where close to 45,500 Palestinians have been killed.
“[Berg’s] entire job is to water down everything that’s too critical of Israel,” one former BBC journalist said.
Another BBC journalist said Berg plays a key role in a broader BBC culture of “systematic Israeli propaganda.”
“How much power he has is wild,” said another journalist.
“There was an extreme fear at the BBC, that if you ever wanted to do anything about Israel or Palestine, editors would say: ‘If you want to pitch something, you have to go through Raffi and get his signoff,” another journalist explained.
In one instance, Berg downplayed Amnesty International’s report on Israeli genocide in Gaza.
He chose a headline emphasizing Israel’s denial—“Israel rejects ‘fabricated’ claims of genocide”—and delayed publishing the story for 12 hours, limiting its online reach.
The interviewed journalists noted that the Amnesty report wasn’t covered on BBC’s flagship programs: BBC One’s News At One, News At Six, News At Ten, or BBC Two’s Newsnight.
“Anyone who writes on Gaza or Israel is asked: ‘Has it gone to edpol [editorial policy], lawyers, and has it gone to Raffi?’“ another journalist said.
Berg, author of a book praising Mossad’s clandestine operations, exerts significant influence over global perceptions of Israel’s Gaza war because, with 1.1 billion visits in May, the BBC’s pro-Israel bias can significantly shape the narrative.
Berg’s bias is also evident in language choices for coverage.
Terms like “massacre,” “slaughter,” and “atrocities” are prominently used for Hamas but seldom for Israel’s actions, as noted by BBC Arabic correspondent Rami Ruhayem.
The BBC often obscures Israeli responsibility in headlines and uses terms favored by the Israeli military to downplay war crimes, such as describing forcible transfers or ethnic cleansing of Palestinian civilians as “evacuations.”
The report also notes that when the BBC does mention Israel as the perpetrator, it uses the caveat “reportedly.”
When the then-Israeli war minister Yoav Gallant publicly vowed to impose a “full siege” on Gaza while calling Palestinians “human animals” the story received just one mention in any BBC online content.
BBC journalists have urged management to address the bias and balance coverage, but their concerns have been ignored.
Many correspondents have raised issues about Berg’s power to reframe stories without success.
Requests for emphasizing Israel’s restriction of BBC access to Gaza, providing context about the occupation, and clarifying the displacement of Palestinian refugees beginning in 1948 have gone unheeded, according to the report.
Raffi Berg — a very English name to be sure.
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/28258
Looks like Press TV copied most of what Berg is doing from the Cradle. Published by The Cradle online 24 hours earlier.
We can all see it’s a genocide and we can all see BBC is lying and not to be trusted ever again, even by the brainwashed.
Raffi Berg.
If the real figure is 300,000 dead Palestinians since October 7 2023. That figure might be close to what he earns.
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Raffi Berg serves as the Middle East editor for BBC News, specializing in reporting on Israel and the broader region. His extensive experience in journalism is highlighted by his authorship of “Red Sea Spies,” which recounts a remarkable Mossad operation. Berg’s role at the BBC places him at the forefront of coverage on significant geopolitical events, including the ongoing tensions in the Middle East.In recent discussions surrounding media coverage, Berg has faced scrutiny regarding the portrayal of Israeli actions in conflict zones. Critics have alleged that his editorial decisions may influence the narrative surrounding sensitive topics, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This has sparked debates about journalistic integrity and the responsibility of media outlets to present balanced perspectives.While specific details about Berg’s salary remain undisclosed, inquiries into BBC staff compensation continue to raise questions about transparency within the organization. As a prominent figure in Middle Eastern journalism, Berg’s work remains pivotal in shaping public understanding of complex regional dynamics.
Ben Apted 30 December 2024
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Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Could you please check what the annual salary for BBC News online’s Middle East editor Raffi Berg was for this year and the last, and inform us about it? Also, does his contract allow additional sources of income, is he obliged to declare these to you and how much did he report? Mr Berg has recently been “named and shamed” in an investigation published by a Guardian columnist, where he stands accused of undermining the BBC’s commitment to impartiality and fairness in coverage of the Gaza conflict. Hence, I believe it would it would be in the public interest for you to tell us how much he costs the tax payer.
Yours faithfully,
Ben
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But to ask Brits to cease & desist paying a licence-fee to the BBC would, im afraid, be asking too much and a “Bridge Too Far” for a population of proles that would have severe withdrawal symptoms without its daily dose of Juice Propaganda pablum
Hmm. Just wondering on Raffi’s ethnicity. Could it be he’s..
Nah nothing to see here, move along. Everyone knows the BBC is a bastion of journalistic integrity.
Israel’s war exposed here, an arsenal of ways in which it conducts its war: censorship; dominating the narrative; directing attention away from its reporting on its war.
All done by agents, partisans, minions of the Zionist-jewish Israeli war upon the enemies it makes, then seeks to destroy, in every way possible, and this is one of the ways.
The BBC covers up the Rape Jihad in GB more than it covers up anything else: but we can say that there is a stunning double standard favouring the Illuminati Conspiracy (Kill Whitey but not Jews)
Great Britania was already a perverted
pedopederast nation since Victorias times .
THERE IS NO BETTER SOLUTION FOR
THAN NATIONAL SUICIDE !
for all the knights, lords, freemasons + house
windsors.
but this alone decides YOU !
separate all jews from nationalities…
they are not British, American French Dutch etc
IN THEIR MINDS, THEY DO NOT BELONG TO ANY COUNTRY
THEY ARE JEWS!!
PERIOD.
1 pound = 4.5 Shekels x 300,000 Pound = 1.350.000 Shekels
Perhaps he’s aiming for one million, three hundred and fifty thousand dead Palestinians.
And if the Shekel continues to devalue, the dead figure might even rise.
the head of BBC news is nick robinson
i forget his jewish name but hes 100% mossad
The disgusting statue at the entrance is the ultimate bbc insult in plain sight.
STOP patronizing them.
The gargoyles & other depraved ‘depictions’ on the higher reaches of the Cathedrals expose the same
intent. They’ve gone to great lengths to corrupt the good.
It’s been embedded centuries,
No More….Do not conform.
Nemesis–so why not support the Jewish State?, and then they do have a country