Ask yourself this. Would genocide be happening in the first place if malignant media weren’t influencing politics and broadcasting hatred and division?
The BBC is the largest broadcaster in the world. Yet its own staff have described it as a “propaganda machine” — a phrase quoted in a 2025 article by The Guardian, highlighting the BBC’s reckoning over bias in its Israel-Palestine coverage (source).
Reports from Media Lens (2024), FAIR (Israel/Palestine), and The New Humanitarian (2023) expose how mainstream media amplifies extremist Zionist narratives while downplaying Palestinian deaths, displacement, and the systemic nature of the violence.
A Human Rights Watch report (2023) further exposes how Meta’s algorithms disproportionately suppress Palestinian content — erasing critical documentation of human rights abuses and reinforcing wider patterns of media complicity.
A major study by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM)found that the BBC consistently downplayed Palestinian suffering and perspectives while amplifying Israeli narratives in its Gaza war coverage. Analyzing nearly 4,000 articles and over 32,000 broadcasts from October 2023 to 2024, the report highlights a 34:1 Palestinian-to-Israeli death ratio and notes systematic omissions of crucial context, including genocidal rhetoric and war crimes allegations. The findings point to an institutional bias that has contributed to underreporting what many now view as a live-streamed genocide.
One of the starkest examples of this media failure is the refusal by many mainstream news organisations – including the BBC – to use the term “genocide” despite growing consensus among international law experts and human rights organisations that what is happening in Palestine is just this. This selective language reflects a wider culture of bias, erasure and editorial cowardice.
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In contrast, many independent outlets speak clearly. They name the genocide. They amplify Palestinian voices. And they challenge the toxic narratives that have long dominated the headlines.
A Media Revolution means exposing these failures not just in the reporting – or lack of – of the many genocides around the world but in their creation in the first place. In the perpetuation of a world of lies and war.
It means working toward a world where journalism is accountable, independent, and just. It means shifting attention and support to movement media and citizen journalism. It means applying pressure to legacy outlets to improve while building new, decentralised ones that serve the public interest.
At the moment, the BBC take their lead directly from the billionaire press, and cover ‘what’s in the papers’.
So, let’s think together. Would genocide be happening in the first place, if malignant media – BBC and the billionaire media owners weren’t influencing politics and broadcasting hatred and division?
Switch your source.
Challenge the root cause.
Change the media, change the future.
Photos by Media Revolution. Palestine march, London 2025.
