I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into the current meltdown. https://t.co/5J6EnMkJYs

"Just as Gaza has proved to be a place where the failings of Western political institutions are exposed, the BBC has itself come unstuck... [with a] managerial elite struggling to avoid falling into a chasm that has opened beneath them." @Equatormag: https://t.co/o4akeoy3Fr

A brilliant in-depth look at what went wrong at the BBC in its reporting on Gaza, by Daniel Trilling:

Want to understand what actually went wrong at the BBC? Read Daniel Trilling’s in-depth report in the corporations’s spectacular failure over the war in Gaza.

"The BBC exhibits symptoms of the West’s wider moral breakdown over Gaza–the failure even to name genocide, let alone stop it, when a Western ally is the perpetrator. Because of the BBC’s peculiar position in the hierarchy of global power, it is a particularly revealing example"

If you haven't read this piece on the BBC debacle by @trillingual you really should:

This is a thorough piece with razor sharp analysis. I am struck by these two quotes from the indefatigable @lilo11 former director of BBC World Service: “false equivalences between fundamentally unequal situations”… “balance when the facts are asymmetrical”. 🎯

“The BBC exhibits symptoms of the West’s wider moral breakdown over Gaza – the failure even to name genocide, let alone stop it, when a Western ally is the perpetrator.” https://t.co/cxh9B6WIan

This is a really good piece which everybody should read. But steppimg back a bit for perspective, perhaps the way I take it is less that what's been happening in the BBC is particularly abnormal and more that the dynamics described by Trilling are how *everything* works.

Brilliant article. Long but well worth the trouble.

Brilliant, revelatory piece on @BBCNews and coverage of #GazaGenocide by @trillingual

this is very, very good

Stunning reporting here for @Equatormag on the profound failures within the BBC when covering Israel/Palestine/Gaza. It goes way beyond "bias" but an inability to accurately report when "our friend" Israel is committing war crimes:

"Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco: How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart Brilliant investigation by Daniel Trilling https://t.co/ll3fU2XhSb

“Many of them described a “culture of fear” inside the BBC. No other issue, said several people who have worked directly on the subject, seems to provoke more nervousness or more meddling from the corporation’s multiple layers of management.”

This weekend’s MUST READ: “Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco” by ⁦@trillingual⁩

Brilliant writing from @trillingual for @Equatormag

A thread summarising months of reporting on the BBC’s Gaza failures — which I think also help to understand why so many “serious” Western news organisations failed to capture what we could all see happening

This week, I published a piece for @Equatormag - based on extensive conversations with BBC insiders - on how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure over Israel's genocide in Gaza - and how that fed directly into its current meltdown. Here's a thread on why...

Now, the BBC - an important part of the UK's democratic culture - is under threat, not least from Donald Trump. I gave some thoughts on the latter to @equatormag's newsletter today. You can sign up for that and read my piece here: https://t.co/5J6EnMkJYs

Instead, all it did was encourage the BBC's critics on the right - culminating in this November's leaked "dossier", which led to the resignations of senior executives Tim Davie and Deborah Turness. Gaza was a key element of the dossier's culture war themes.