When Israel assassinated Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif earlier this month, the Reuters news agency ran a report titled: “Israel kills Al Jazeera journalist it says was Hamas leader”. They chose that headline despite the fact al-Sharif used to work for them – he was part of a Reuters team that won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize.
Instances like this caused a backlash online, but also sparked concern among some staff at the influential global newswire, which was founded in London in 1851 and now has a daily audience of more than a billion. Multiple Reuters employees have spoken to Declassified about what they see as pro-Israel bias among the company’s editors and management. All requested anonymity to avoid reprisals. In the email, they also said,“
I’ve attached a report…and an open letter some colleagues and I sent to management in the hopes that Reuters will uphold basic journalistic principles, but I now recognize that senior leadership is unlikely to change, much less stop actively stifling critiques.”
It’s great to see people speaking out from inside about serious bias. Reuters and BBC are two publications that (I thought) had better reputations prior to this.
Reuters seemed genuine, but BBC has been a craphole since existence lol. It only stays passable because it’s quite large and happens to be a government funded network which brings in a lot of diverse input and reporting, even if the administration is trash.
There’s a common quip I mention on here when BBC translated Musharraf’s line from “Pakistan requires the nuclear bomb” to “God has given us the right to a nuclear bomb” on the subtitles for like the 5 seconds he didn’t speak in english.
Compared to the US, I’m honestly surprised PBS isn’t the same.
I also noticed an unusual statement by them in an article shared here on Lemmy https://lemmy.world/comment/18624554
I can’t find a record of the (pretty serious) mistranslation you mentioned.
Actually struggling to find it again because it was quite old (circa 2008 iirc, maybe even as early as 2002) in a TV interview so there’s no good indexing on search engines. Will keep looking because people definitely saved it and it was occasionally reposted on reddit and other forums.
That and because I keep getting results of other recent blatant ministrations like this one lol: https://www.thenational.scot/news/23949777.bbc-responds-translators-accuse-broadcaster-error-gaza-report/
It’s hard to call that one misinformation outright, since the translation turned out to be correct. But the video of the woman saying those words was clipped short until they released the full version, which is obviously not good enough at all on the part of the BBC.
They did, but somehow their leadership decided that everything must change to the exact opposite of what it was.
It reminds me of Orwell’s 1984.
Reuters fact based reporting indicates Hamas uses children as human shields. Communist journalists can leave to russia if they want to.
