[AaronTV]

I think thanks to the propaganda that comes with war we can't really say we even know now the actual facts around that case and we have a situation where governments are keen to follow the Israeli narrative whilst journalists jobs is to find the truth - although sometimes journalists work towards finding a pre-conceived idea of the truth that reaches the desired conclusion.   And of course us as news consumers will often sway towards the reports which back our own point of view too.

The BBC get criticised whatever they do and so far the complaint count sees to be 50/50 which suggests there is a balance there.

I would probably be inclined to agree with you in terms of accusations of bias more generally, but given that an apology has been made by BBC News regarding this particular case and it was described as a ‘mistake’ by a senior BBC executive, I don’t think you can really suggest there was balance present in this instance. It’s quite the position to defend something which the BBC are unable to defend themselves.

When the news channel ran the caption ‘Health officials: At least 500 killed in strike on Gaza hospital’, what they really meant was that Hamas, a terrorist organisation, had claimed that 500 people had been killed in a ‘strike’ which at that time had not been independently verified. The term ‘health officials’ was entirely misleading, as was the caption suggesting it had been proven. 

Sky News got it right, why couldn’t the BBC? Whatever your politics are there is no denying that this particular case involved fundamentally misleading reporting.