“HOW MAINSTREAM MEDIA IGNORES UK MILITARY SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL: Britain does much more than simply sell weapons to Israel, but you wouldn’t know it from watching the BBC.”
“But there’s another side to the problem of the media: the stories that are not covered and the uncomfortable truths (for Israel and its supporters) that are not acknowledged.
This is particularly the case when it comes to the issue of how the UK military has contributed to Israel’s assault on Gaza.”
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“The failure of the mainstream media to address the genocide in Gaza is all too clear when looking at the euphemistic language they use and the sources they highlight.
But we also have to look beneath the surface: to the stories that the media choose not to pursue because that would draw attention to the complicity of all those at the heart of the British establishment who have helped to facilitate the war crimes currently taking place in Gaza.”
The take from #BBC#Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg:
'In effect, Vladimir Putin is saying: I’ll keep the territory I’ve occupied, plus some territory I’m not occupying, plus Ukraine won’t join Nato, plus the West will drop all the sanctions against Russia. This is what he’s calling “a real peace proposal.”
Ebrahim #Raisi stood close to the pinnacle of power in the Islamic Republic and was widely tipped to rise to its very top
A dramatic turn dealt him a different hand
His death in a helicopter crash on Sunday has upended the growing speculation over who will eventually replace the 85-year-old Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali #Khamenei, whose own health has long been the focus of intense interest ⏩
↪ The tragic fate of #Iran’s hardline president is not expected to disrupt the direction of Iranian policy or jolt the Islamic Republic in any consequential way.
But it will test a system where conservative hardliners now dominate all branches of power, both elected and unelected.
#BBC can't get its mind whether they want to present #Russia narrative or international law, so some dumb editor pictured #Crimea as part of Russia but at the same time Donbas as part of #Ukraine. For this map, the editor would be arrested in Russia as it doesn't show the "new territories" (Donbas, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts) but they would be (and already are) criticised in the West 🤦
My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow).
They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS.
Page sizes drop significantly: