Sunday, June 8, 2008
Honest Reporting has once again caught a Palestinian Arab reporter, and BBC employee -- big surprise -- telling tales contradictory to the known facts:
...Perhaps it is not clear exactly what occurred during this incident. What is clear from CAMERA's investigation, however, is the patent unreliability of Palestinian eyewitnesses and sources along with the media's apparent willingness to report conjecture as fact.
So, is the BBC's Aleem Maqbool a genuine eyewitness to these events in Ramallah a year ago? And if so, which version of this contradictory story is he prepared to stick by? Or is he simply regurgitating the Palestinian version designed to cause maximum damage to Israel's image in a minimum number of sentences?
Typical of the BBC's reporting is the failure to provide adequate context to its stories or to verify unreliable sources. If the BBC is prepared to make such a serious allegation of an IDF "execution", then the least its reporter can provide is hard facts and background material, which was severely lacking in this particular story...
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