Over the past fourteen months we have documented several cases in which the BBC has amplified the messaging of what it labels an “Israeli activist group” but failed to comply with its own editorial guidelines on impartiality by informing audiences of the agenda and ideology that lies behind the political NGO ‘Breaking the Silence’.
BBC editorial guidelines flouted in promotion of ‘Breaking the Silence’ booklet
Another breach of editorial guidelines in yet more BBC promotion of ‘Breaking the Silence’
The context of the BBC’s promotion of ‘Breaking the Silence’
BBC’s ME Editor gives unchallenged amplification to Palestinian defamation
What the BBC World Service edited out of a ‘Boston Calling’ report
Last week Channel 10’s investigative journalism programme ‘HaMakor’ presented an interesting report on ‘Breaking the Silence’ in which the issue of the reliability of the NGO’s ‘testimonies’ was examined.
Our colleague Gidon Shaviv has now translated the results of that investigation in an article titled “Breaking the Silence Gets Failing Grade in Channel 10’s Fact-Check“.
The findings of Channel 10’s investigation show that the BBC’s repeated unquestioning and uncritical amplification of ‘Breaking the Silence’ is not conducive to meeting its public purposes and yet again underscore the urgent need for the corporation to adhere to its own editorial guidelines on impartiality when quoting and promoting that – or any other – political NGO.
