BBC's Transparency
The front page of BBC News as of 10:00 am (GMT) on 09/06/2025
In fairness, I don’t have too much of an issue with the left-most headline. The right-most headline is predicably noxious. It’s unsurprising that the headline foregrounds Greta, but “diverted” is the most gentle way of putting “arrested”… and when their actions are not illegal according to international law (and, indeed, an attempt to resist and bring attention to some of the gravest crimes against humanity in history) “kidnapped” would be far more accurate.
However, the images are both very effective pieces of propaganda. On the leftmost image, we see nothing indicating the reason for the protests, which is the kidnapping od civilians by ICE. We see no placards, banners or signs. We see no collective solidarity between citizens of different ethnicities and identities. We also, notably, see no intimidating police violence or suppression. Instead, we see (what appears to be) context-less, meaningless violence. A car torched to charred smitereens. It could be your car! The husk of another car in the background behind it like a dead beetle on its back. The landscape denuded. It is as post-apocalyptic an image as possible.
Of course, no post-apocalyptic images of Gaza in the right-most image. Just an image of a kindly IDF soldier offering some food to an especially child-like looking Greta. Greta smiles in baleful, polite submission [I suspect this was an opportunistically snapped picture of Greta masking - being neurodivergent I can relate to the smiling awkwardly in situations I later kick myself for smiling in]. It all looks very peaceable and decent, the moral Moral Army in the World™ clapping the misguided, well-meaning, child-like white activist on the back and saying “No hard feelings, kid”.
If you haven’t cancelled your license already, please do so. Frankly you’re better off playing games on itch.io, reading books from the library or watching a decent video essay on YouTube than the crap they have on the BBC anyway.