Episode 29 - Inside the nuts and bolts of the BBC’s “Orwellian” coverage of Gaza | Karishma Patel | UNAPOLOGETIC

“We have not even scratched the surface of the crimes Israel has truly committed”

Former BBC journalist Karishma Patel left the BBC because of what she perceived as its editorial “double-standards” while reporting on Israel's military assault on Gaza.

In this episode of Unapologetic, she takes us into the newsroom of the BBC and show’s us just how the BBC built an “Orwellian” atmosphere around coverage of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.

UNAPOLOGETIC is hosted by Ashfaaq Carim

Chapters

01:01 Intro
01:15 Welcome to unapologetic
01:36 BBC an 'Orwellian' space
03:20 Confronting management at the BBC
08:05 Her role at the BBC
09:47 Are BBC journalists ignoring or dismissing the evidence against Israel
14:14 BBC coverage post October 2023
18:02 confrontational organising in the BBC
19:41 journalists self censoring themselves
25:19 her own self censoring
30:56 embarrassment of the BBC's coverage
36:45 the term 'Genocide'
40:34 the bias of the BBC continuing until this day
44:19 the BBC relying on 'authority sources'
47:55 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel
54:16 her aspirations when joining the BBC
59:54 what she's learned the last 16 months
01:03:18 Miss universe great britain
01:04:46 how will history judge the BBC coverage / where will the BBC be in a decade
01:10:28 outro