What is Reddit's opinion of Bad News From Israel?

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I'm off my mobile now.

Now to be fair, if we're critisizing things as being "a blog post without any detail" let's see how that wikipedia article backs-up its claim.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/david-wearing/six-problems-with-sarah-ditum%E2%80%99s-article-about-iraq-and-left

Oh...

Are we allowing that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Specific_allegations

A whole page of it for BBC...

Here is a better Wings Over Scotland article with more detail:

http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-extraordinary-untruth/

And a followup after their pithy response.

http://wingsoverscotland.com/an-act-of-provocation/

Likewise here is a better media lens link which deals with Andre Marr reporting for the BBC:

http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2010/15-a-journey-unchallenged-andrew-marr-interviews-tony-blair.html

You may not be ideologically inclined with either of these websites. But their source data are always accurate or from legitimate sources (in so far as they don't make up any statements or claims).

Without my university credentials decent academic sources can be tricky so this is a bit from memory:

Here's a book from the academically acclaimed GUMG which deals with BBC and ITN bias, long time since I looked at it though:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0745320619

This looks quiet promising as well:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Without-Responsibility-Broadcasting-Internet/dp/0415114071

The fact of the matter is, news bias or slack reporting is one of those areas which are pretty well addressed in blogs or columns. Fawning praise is pretty easy to spot likewise false claims and lies unscrutinized are also very clear with hindsight.

If you remain unconvinced that the BBC has issues with bias there's still plenty more places to look. Most courses wouldn't even deal with the idea of something being free from bias, only the nature and extent of it. With the BBC it is endemic and it neuters their standards of reporting state claims.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-News-Israel-Greg-Philo/dp/0745320619

"Review The book does a very good job of summarising for the reader the complex historical background to present day Israel. It covers a lot of ground in a clear and readable manner and is particularly good at airing different views about the Arab-Israeli conflict. (Professor Avi Shlaim, University of Oxford )

A remarkable book, very comprehensive, with an innovative approach and full of interesting examples. It is convincing and very useful not only for researchers but for the general public as well. (Professor Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel, Universités de Lille III and Paris VIII )

Bad News from Israel reveals remarkable levels of ignorance about why things are as they are. What's more, the analysis offered here strongly suggests that the media are intimately linked to the perpetuation of this unhappy situation. (Professor Frank Webster, City University, London )

This superb study ... [blends] together material on what the media do, why they do it, and how their modes of reporting affect public knowledge and interest. (Professor Edward S. Herman, University of Pennsylvannia )

Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often dangerously superficial. Bad News from Israel is a strong contribution to scholarship and public debate. (Professor John D.H. Downing, Southern Illinois University )

This volume is a must-read for those journalists and media critics who are tired of the same old debates about objectivity, and wish to move onto more sophisticated questions about how media bias actually works to alter public perceptions of important issues. (The Republic )

Philo and Berry have torn away the veil that has long obscured fair and objective reporting of the region. (Vertigo )" A LIAR.