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Yeah they might not technically be lying, but they are really trying their hardest to make themselves look like fucking zionist defenders sometimes.
What do you mean trying? The amount of ass-kissing they do for Israel is insane and horrific.
An important lesson that you can learn from the Gaza bullshit that's going on is that all media has an ideology and cannot ever be trusted to be completely unbiased, especially the ones that present themselves as unbiased.
The truth is always found somewhere in the middle. But sometimes it's really, really far away from some of these propaganda outlets. Often times it's really, really close to a particular news source. Sadly, we can't just say "the BBC is often really-really-close to the truth", therefore they are always really-really-close to the truth. Sometimes, on certain topics, they are just spouting propaganda, and they always will be, because that's their ideological position and what they are posting will always be consistent with that ideological position, not with truth. They can still, as part of the ideological position, post a lot of stuff that is if not exactly the truth, very very close to it. But they can never be trusted to always do that, they will always have an agenda and an ideology.
Consider the source doesn't mean "find something truly unbiased and ignore everything else" it means understand why the source is saying the things they're saying, the way they're saying them, and why they're omitting what they're omitting, and compare that against other sources doing the same things, or different things, based on the understanding that you've developed of their biases, and also to develop further understanding of those biases. Media literacy is critical, especially with how much we're getting bombarded with fake news and how much the rug has been pulled out from beneath legitimate quality journalism. We need to thoroughly consider and understand sources these days. It's not easy, it's also a lot of work. We shouldn't have to do it. But we live in the information age, and information is a battleground, so we must. Those are the skills we need to survive in this world now.
No, sometimes the truth is outside the box
Really? I have seen the evidence of the opposite.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/15/bbc-alienated-everyone-gaza-bias
You are just giving examples of (what you think is) more pro-Israel bias. Regardless of whether it is so, I gave you an example of pro Hamas bias and The Guardian article does not address my example.
Zionists crying is not evidence.
Here is who runs the BBC middle east news. Literal Israeli ex-IDF.
Whats the lie there?
Bias by omission. They retracted their calling Hamas a terrorist organization and other than that "slip" have never called them that.
They also mislead by always quoting from "Gaza Health Ministry" instead of from Hamas who run the Ministry. This gives the impression they writing from a reliable. The Al Ahli hospital fraud shows it is far from reliable.
I could go on but I doubt anyone here is interested in muddying the water when they have a black and white narrative to defend. And it is getting off topic anyhow.
The point is that no source is 100% reliable but I would argue that BBC is as reliable as it gets (unfortunately).
Forensic architecture research has shown that it was Israel who bombed El Ahli hospital.
BBC is literally famous for saying "Hamas run health ministry". Which is a Zionist adjective because they do not do it for Israel (which has lied plenty about their casualty count)
Strange you bring up the hospital bombing after Israel literally bombed a hospital by the way.