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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nighed@sffa.community to c/world@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

The BBC answers to UK law at the end of the day

Actually no, the role of journalism isn't just to parrot and re-express the views of the current government from where they are based.

[-] steventhedev@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I agree they shouldn't parrot the views of the UK government blindly. But the BBC are not above the law. Stop that nonsense.

Hamas is a terrorist organization. They organize and commit acts of intentional violence against civilians with the express purpose of spreading terror.

Calling them anything else other than that is a disservice to the readers of the BBC and implicitly condones their actions by not labelling them as such.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Was the Nazi party of Nazi Germany a terrorist organization when Germany invaded Poland?

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