Comment by hnlmorg
1 month ago
From the article:
> A BBC spokesperson said: "These criticisms are factually incorrect; we have been covering the protests in Iran daily across all of our platforms, including our main news bulletins, in English and via BBC News Persian."
And this can be seen with examples like this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj2llkjv8vo
I’m sure you’ll then respond with some opinion piece about how you perceive the quality of reporting, but that’s a more nuanced, subjective, argument. One which I don’t see any value discussing given the clear biases and agendas behind your arguments (ie it wouldn’t be fair, rational, and balanced discussion)
However for the “facts” of your comment, they’re clearly and easily disproven.
Coverage is not the mere existence of an article. Coverage is what's visible. Anyone concerned about Iran was clearly seeing for the whole first week of Jan that there were 0 visible article on the BBC and a few others, this has been turned into memes, captured on screenshots, etc, there is ample evidence, just type "Iran bbc" on X. But this probably a collective hallucination I get it.