Iran Exposes BBC's Incompetence, Unprofessionalism, and Bias
by Peter A Baum, WeeklyBlitz.net (excerpt)
As events in Iran unfold, it is clear to all interested observers that the mainstream media has adopted a two-tier reporting agenda that mirrors the United Kingdom’s police and judiciary’s two-tier justice system.
Unprofessional, incompetent, and biased have been the hallmarks of the most prominent media brands for decades, concentrating on diluting conservative and Judeo–Christian values and giving saturation attention to demonizing the Jewish State of Israel and Donald Trump.
Over the last decade, a developed agenda has expanded to include promoting trans rights, multiculturalism, Islamic values, and climate change.
All these topics have been overwhelmingly encouraged and facilitated by those with the most influence within mainstream media channels, which have been dominated by ‘progressive’ activists.
Nevertheless, more recently, there has been an encouraging challenge from new media alternative outlets that are winning audiences and seem to be heading on an upward trajectory.
The Iran story has exposed yet again the incompetence, unprofessionalism, and bias of the BBC and others, given their refusal to cover this major geopolitical event until well into the second week of the popular uprising.
Having been forced, reluctantly, to comment in any detail or depth, they then reported and continue to report from a view that facilitated the propaganda perpetrated by the totalitarian theocrats struggling to retain power by committing atrocities on those demanding change.
I, for one, was not perplexed by such reporting. In fact, I expected nothing less from the BBC, given how eagerly they reported, without challenge, the Hamas propaganda during the recent Gaza war.
Regarding Iran, the BBC continues to use the term economic protests despite mosques being burned down and statues and memorials to the Ayatollahs and IRGC hierarchy being destroyed.
What may have started as economic dissatisfaction has morphed into something far more aggressive and deeper, nothing less than an anti-Islamic uprising.
The BBC has refused to recognize this, so embedded are they in preserving extremist Islamic values enforced by their organizational structure and unwillingness to be impartial.
The silence of the anti-Israeli media and parliamentarians, academia, university students, the political left, celebrities and sports personalities, trade unions, etc., has been …