HobbitFeet wrote:Guest wrote:Cactus Jack wrote:The BBC reminds us three times in each report that HAMAS is 'designated as a terrorist organisation' so I don't see what else they need to do.
Perhaps you're objection is to the BBC reporting on the Israeli attacks on non-combatants, people who are certainly not members of HAMAS - premature babies etc.
The use of the word terrorist by the BBC is real progress, they might be worrying about license fee increase being opposed.
They’re meant to be impartial, and this is progress.
Hamas has always been described as being a terrorist organisation by the BBC
hamas is recognised in the UK as a proscribed terrorist group
it isn't the BBC doing anything, they are just reporting the news as is and nothing has changed
“BBC defends policy not to call Hamas 'terrorists' after criticism.
The BBC has defended its decision not to describe Hamas militants as "terrorists" in coverage of the recent attacks in Israel.
UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said the policy is "verging on disgraceful".
A BBC spokesperson noted it was a long-standing position for its reporters not to use the term themselves unless attributing it to someone else.
Veteran BBC foreign correspondent John Simpson said "calling someone a terrorist means you're taking sides".
But Mr Shapps said the BBC needs to locate its "moral compass".
"I actually think it is verging on disgraceful, this idea that there is some sort of equivalence, and they'll always say, well there's two sides," he told LBC.
He said Hamas, who have "gone out and slaughtered innocent people, babies, festival-goers, pensioners", is a proscribed organisation in the UK - meaning the government officially views it as a terrorist organisation that is illegal to support.
"They are not freedom fighters, they are not militants, they are pure and simple terrorists and it's remarkable to go to the BBC website and still see them talking about gunmen and militants.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainmen ... 076341.amp11th October, when this was written, they refused to call them terrorists
It caused quite a stir back then.
I’m glad they’ve changed their tune.