It was no mistake. The BBC and the rest of the establishment media would repeat Hamas claims all day every day, and never correct or apologize for a thing, if they weren’t called out.
“BBC apologises for reporting a Hamas claim about IDF ‘summary executions,’” Jewish News, January 9, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The BBC has apologised for reporting an unconfirmed Hamas claims about the Israeli army carrying out “summary executions” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza….
News agency AFP had initially reported that Hamas had gathered testimonies showing 137 Palestinians had been executed since the start of Israel‘s offensive.
AFP said it could not verify the claim….
In a statement, the BBC said: “In overnight output [on BBC radio news bulletins] we ran a story about Hamas accusing the Israeli army of carrying out summary executions in the Gaza strip.
“This was a Hamas statement, but although the accusations were attributed and our story contained a response from the Israeli military saying they were unaware of the incident and that Hamas was a terrorist organisation that did not value truth, we had not made sufficient effort to seek corroborating evidence to justify reporting the Hamas claim. We apologise for this mistake.”
Hoi Polloi says
My rule about apologies for supposed mistakes is to look for a pattern. Al Beebs certainly meets the requirement given its patterns and history of pro-islamic interests reporting.
Westman says
What a mealy-mouth, weasel-worded, “apology”. Britons are forced to pay for propaganda in a “free” society where listening vans search for anyone without a TV license? Goebbels is smiling up from Hell.
This “peoples” influencer outlet (BBC) will soon be preparing Britons for more dances with the Houthis and the eventual Grand Ballroom dance with Iran. “Dancing With The Bards”, soon playing on BBC TV.
Ray Jarman says
+1
To add to your comment, this is like opening the barn door after the horses have been burned to death. The BBC understands that all that matters is the first blast and any aftershocks are simply shaken off.
David Fahey says
How low this once esteemed organization has fallen. During WW2, the BBC was a champion of truth. Now they are little more than a gross purveyor of lies and slanderous hearsay. Poor Churchill must be rolling in his grave to see what has happened to Great Britain since he died.
Tony Rice says
Do not trust what the B B C say or show, I am told even photos and films are doctored.
somehistory says
If more people stuck to the Truth, fewer apologies would be necessary. And if mozlums were not given the power, more Truth would be free-flowing.
bagsgroove says
The muslims and their fans are being victorious in boring us to death. After boring all of us to death,they will be the masters of the world. But they don’t know that they also would have bored all the muslims to death,until only the top pigs would be left until they themselves will be bored to death. But they don’t know that hell is a deathly boring place. So have fun being bored for eternity in hell.
James Lincoln says
The BBC was actually good – about 80 years ago.
Rufolino says
We live in an age when the Truth is under attack, at all times, everywhere, in all matters.
Too many people of power & influence today want the Truth not to matter.