#18: Archived Message
Posted by Ian M on July 30, 2022, 7:53 pm, in reply to "Project: to find 29 examples of the BBC failing 'due impartiality' in Ukraine reporting"
#18: Ukrainians used as 'bargaining chips' in Russian prisoner of war exchanges, May 31st:
Newsreader: 'Well the war in Ukraine has seen not just soldiers captured but civilians too. For those who survive many find themselves as bargaining chips for prisoner of war exchanges or forced by the Russians to accept their occupation.' Reporter James Waterhouse: 'Klib is only just taking his first steps. two months ago he was defending Mariupol with the marines watching for the enemy [...] He survived but was captured. No one knew whether he was dead or alive until this video was posted online by his captors. He was taken to a hospital in Russian occupied territory.' Klib: 'They held a dagger on my leg, up my throat then led to my ear and said it would be nice to cut off your ear. They did it to nearly everyone. I couldn't feed myself because my jaw was broken and i couldn't sit up but some nurses would taunt me by leaving food down in front of me and say try and eat that you low-life Ukrainian. We were lying there without any painkillers or anything. So only my faith and the understanding that I had to survive helped me to carry on.' James Waterhouse: 'In war capture is an occupational hazard for a soldier. But this conflict has seen people, citizens taken by the Russians as they try to do two things: either use them as currency and prisoner exchanges, and that seems to have worked in some cases, but also to try and crush their resistance, their fight. And that hasn't been so successful.' Klib: 'Yes, I want to go back and continue fighting for Ukraine to help bring us victory over Russia.' ***** No comment from Russian officials or answer to the serious allegations of mistreatment at the hands of the Russian military and medical personnel. In any case, in the report these concern a soldier, not a civilian, and no evidence is presented that the latter are captured and ransomed, as stated. It's obvious from the sympathetic portrayal that the BBC reporters support the 'resistance' of the Ukrainians - hardly impartial.
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- Project: to find 29 examples of the BBC failing 'due impartiality' in Ukraine reporting - Ian M July 26, 2022, 8:32 pm
- #2 - Ian M July 26, 2022, 11:25 pm
- #4 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 12:03 am
- #5 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 12:27 am
- Good work Ian. Hope to chime in once able to understand Ofcom dodgy use of changeable goalposts. nm - marknadim July 27, 2022, 1:37 am
- #6 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 6:55 pm
- Re: #7 - Keith-264 July 27, 2022, 8:11 pm
- Re: #7 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 11:01 pm
- #8 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 10:54 pm
- #9 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 11:22 pm
- #10 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 11:50 pm
- #11? Remember this one from Grayzone? "BBC correspondent-fixer shaping Ukraine coverage is PR op" - marknadim July 28, 2022, 5:56 am
- #12 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 6:52 pm
- #13 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 7:20 pm
- Re: #13 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 7:22 pm
- #14 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 8:21 pm
- #15 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 11:01 pm
- #16 - Ian M July 29, 2022, 11:25 pm
- #17 - Ian M July 29, 2022, 11:56 pm
- #18: - Ian M July 30, 2022, 7:53 pm
- #19 - Ian M July 30, 2022, 11:14 pm
- #20 and #21 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 12:05 am
- #22 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 7:27 pm
- #23 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 8:14 pm
- #24 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 11:18 pm
- Re: #24 - Tomski August 2, 2022, 10:00 pm
- #25 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 11:43 pm
- #26 - Ian M August 1, 2022, 10:53 pm
- #27 - Ian M August 1, 2022, 11:34 pm
- #28 - Ian M August 2, 2022, 12:14 am
- #29 - Ian M August 2, 2022, 7:01 pm
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