Surely other people have their own experiences with the BBC. Therefore, I suppose their analysis of BBC’s refusal to broadcast humanitarian aid appeal for the Palestinian victims of Gaza can fit their experiences. I have my own viewpoint and therefore the components of my analysis are quite different.

Darwinian evolution in general and human sociobiology (Wilson 1980) in particular teach us that there cannot be any so-called objective reporting because of the fact that we are already born with biases, which are later enforced during our biocultural development.

In other words, human newborn’s mind is no tabula raza. We are all born with built-in preferences that will influence our developmental stages. Therefore, because of the complexity of human nature (Wilson 1978), it is more relevant to speak about the “Balanced Reporting (BR)” rather than objective reporting which is a myth.

The BR means that the news items should equally and systematically involve and cover all interacting parties. For example, any report on the recent Israeli assault on Gaza should equally include both Hamas and Israeli viewpoints. The viewpoints of others should be regarded only as complementary and not essential.

Unfortunately, in the recent war in Gaza most Western news networks openly or tacitly provided more coverage to Israel’s viewpoint rather than Hamas or Palestinians. The BBC was no exception. Let us not to forget that Israel also provided the Western media with a good pretext by not allowing them to enter Gaza.

This is not the first time that the Western media has failed to provide BR. During the illegal invasion of Iraq by the US-Britain led coalition forces, most Western media including BBC openly were biased against Iraqi forces. Then the excuse was that the Western public opinion supported their invading troops!

Indeed, what were the actual reasons for BBC’s refusal to air appeal for humanitarian aid that would benefit the Palestinian victims of Israeli aggression especially injured men, women, and children? Indeed, BBC’s claim of impartiality is totally irrelevant, hypocritical, and inhuman.

My answer is the hypertrophic influence of the Jewish lobby especially in the big Western news networks. I am not talking about myths or the conspiracy theories here. Sometimes the facts are too simple to be realized.

The late Shah of Iran was a close alley of the US and Israel. Let us watch a short video of Mike Wallace’s interview with the late Shah of Iran in 1976 concerning the name of “Persian Gulf” and the hypertrophic influence of the “Jewish Lobby.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQgZ3oLp_WY&feature=related

Dr. Kazem Zarrabi,
Biomedical and Cultural Study and Research Centre (BMCSRC),
Copenhagen, Denmark
04.02.2009

Wilson, E.O. (1978). On Human Nature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Wilson, E.O., 1980. Sociobiology. Cambridge, Mass.: London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Yours truly,

Reaz.