Here’s a normal headline about an event taking place during a war:
Who, What, Where, When, Why? The five W’s of writing, the five questions that good journalists seek to answer in every report. What has happened with the BBC News?
I understand very well that the BBC’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has been terrible in the past but the sheer lengths it is going, during the current war, to avoid addressing Israel’s obvious, blatant genocide of Gazans is quite something to behold.
In this article, I am going to rewrite some recent BBC headlines to demonstrate actual fake news in action.
See also
Scottish OG from the time of the First Palestinian Intifada and the birth of the international movement of solidarity with the Palestinian people • Author of one of the first blogs/first warblog— A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1994-1998) • Former Friends of Birzeit University (FoBZU) Coordinator • Former Birzeit University Public Relations Officer and Webmaster • Co-creator of the first independent media website in 1996— On the Ground In Ramallah: Reports from a town become battlefield • Cofounder and Editor of the original Electronic Intifada website • Day producer for Global Revolution’s news channel during #OccupyWallStreet, which introduced the world to the crowd-sourced power of livestreaming • Creator of countless websites for pro-Palestinian and nonprofit organizations around the world via nigelparry.net
