Priporočam tole nit o sistematični uredniški politiki BBC glede poročanja o vojni v Gazi in nato še raziskovalni članek Owena Jonesa, na kateri osnovi je nastala ta nit. Kaj bi rekli, če bi področnega urednika slovenske javne RTV postavili kar v ameriški CIA? No, to se je očitno zgodilo na BBC, kjer poročanje o vojni v Gazi ureja Raffi Berg, spletni urednik za Bližnji vzhod, ki je svojo novinarsko pot začel v ameriški Foreign Broadcast Information Service, ki je dejansko operacija ameriške CIA. Kasneje se je aktivno udeležil protesta v podporo Izraelu, napisal promocijsko knjigo v delovanju Mossadovih agentov, za katero je zelo ponosen, da se nahaja na knjižni polici Benjamina Netanyahuja. Zdaj pa ureja narativo glede poročanja o vojni v Gazi na BBC – stil poročanja, naslove člankov, kje in kdaj bo članek objavljen, ali bo indeksiran na prvi strani spleta in na katerem mestu itd.
Vendar Berg ni edini, ki določa način in ton poročanja o vojni v Gazi. Podobno vlogo ima Robbie Gibb, ki je član 5-članskega odbora, ki določa “smernice” poročanja BBC. Njegov problem je podobno kot pri Bergu – da ni neodvisen, med drugim je povezan s poslovnim reševanjem medija The Jewish Chronicle (“the world’s oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper“). Danes na BBC določa smernice glede poročanja o vojni v Gazi.
Spodaj je nekaj odlomkov iz članka Owena Jonesa o uredniški politiki BBC.
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O vlogi Raffija Berga:
Raffi Berg began his career in local radio, later spending nearly a year as a news editor for the U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, an outlet he later discovered was run by the CIA—a fact he was “absolutely thrilled” to learn.
Berg’s first job at the BBC was as a reporter. His bylined work included “Israel’s teenage recruits,” a story published in 2002 that presented young IDF soldiers as courageous defenders of their country while failing to mention the occupation and settlement of Palestinian land or the widespread allegations of crimes documented by human rights organizations, including in Israel, and even the U.S. State Department. One BBC journalist described the article as an “IDF puff piece.”
Berg’s reported work also included a three-part series on Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. The series presented them as victims seeking “a better quality of life” and did not mention the fact that the settlements have been repeatedly deemed illegal. Instead, the series included a boxed sidebar, outside the text of the actual story, to relay that the settlements are “widely regarded by international community as illegal under international law,” but Israel maintains that “international conventions do not apply in the West Bank and Gaza because they were not under the legitimate sovereignty of any state in the first place.”




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