Unreliable sources

Wednesday's Example of Media Bias   —   Posted on November 28, 2012

From a post at HonestReporting.com (original post date 11/15/12):
What happens when the cameras turn up at the scene of an [Israeli] airstrike in Gaza and there simply aren’t enough Palestinian dead and injured to produce dramatic footage that can be used against Israel in the international media? We’ve seen it before. Palestinians who appear to be injured or even dead for the benefit of the TV cameras turn out to be nothing of the sort once they are no longer the focus.

This is all the more so in Gaza, where Palestinian stringers are often filming in the absence of international news crews. [Stringers work for news agency on a part-time basis.]

The example below is taken from a BBC interview on the targeted killing of Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari. During the interview (full version here), footage from Gaza is shown. At 2:11 minutes in, a Palestinian in a beige jacket and black T-shirt, presumably injured in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike, is picked up and taken away. Yet at 2:44 mins, the same Palestinian has staged a remarkable recovery.

[HonestReporting.com] has taken the relevant footage so that you can see for yourself.

Background

THE BBC:

• The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcasting corporation.  
• Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. 
• It is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff.
• Within the United Kingdom the BBC's work is funded principally by an annual television license fee, which is charged to all British households...which have TV; the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament (it is $232.55 per household)