International food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) is suspending its operations in Gaza following the death of seven of its workers in an Israeli air strike.
One very important word missing from that headline. The BBC should be ashamed of its coverage as they do this again and again.
Corrected version: “World Central Kitchen halts operations in Gaza after ISRAELI strike kills staff”
You should understand why news is now inherently a horrible thing and modern day journalism is dead because of it. This is the same for when they readily use “terrorists” in news presses.
Except when the perpetrator is light skinned - then they are more careful with throwing that word around.
Maybe I’m above average here, but i feel like that’s already pretty obvious. AFAIK Israel is the only one currently genociding in Gaza. Now, if it WASNT Israel, that’d need the extra word.
You only get so many words in a title, news orgs tend to leave out the ones that don’t need more explanation.
it isn’t obvious to anyone reading mainstream news. news orgs are bending over backwards to obfuscate who’s actually doing the killing (one particularly egregious example being the NYT writing a whole-ass haiku instead of stating that Israeli soldiers opened fire on Palestinians seeking aid). sure, this particular headline would be ok if it was common knowledge that Israel is causing the wanton destruction in Gaza, but thanks to every other headline being like this, it isn’t
Wow, you really weren’t kidding about the haiku. Wtf.
There have been a couple of recent (post-October) studies into BBC coverage, the issue I raise concerning the language used in the title is consistent with its use of language elsewhere. For example, Israelis are “killed” and Palestinians “die”.
"About 700 people have been killed in Israel since Hamas launched its attack on Saturday, with a further 500 having died in Gaza in retaliatory air strikes." "Some 1200 people have been killed in Israel, while more than 1000 have died in retaliatory air strikes on Gaza." "More than 700 people have been killed in Israel since Saturday and over 500 people have died in Gaza."[…] the openDemocracy analysis found that the phrases “murder”, “murderous”, “mass murder”, “brutal murder” and “merciless murder” were used a total of 52 times by [BBC] journalists to refer to Israeli deaths – but never in relation to Palestinian deaths.
When I read this sort of coverage on a daily basis, I see these patterns repeated again and again, it’s a subtle reframing that many don’t notice but editors (and headline writers) at the BBC will be very aware of how they are using language. Space is not an excuse to remove the perpetrator from the picture regardless of how obvious that perpetrator might be, it is disingenuous.
Study shows BBC ‘bias’ in reporting on Palestinian and Israeli deaths - The National
the IDF hit the convoy three times with precision guided munitions over the span a couple of kilometers.
the claim was that they had seen someone who was alleged to be an armed terrorist enter the building hours before the convoy departed from it.
How dare you feed the children that look similar to a drawing that could be a terrorist
Israel gotta make sure to “accidentally” kill food aid workers so its “accidental” famine “accidentally” drives Gazans to desperation and death.
Not ‘air strike’.
BOMBING
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