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The Gaza war is the biggest failure of journalism in history.

JL;DR SUMMARY Jake Wallis Simons critiques the BBC's documentary "Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone," highlighting journalistic failures around its production. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HamasGazaPropagandaMedia BiasBbcJournalismWestern MediaIsrael ConflictEthicsCasualty Figures

Places mentioned

Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Everybody knows that the Gaza Strip is run by Hamas, which exercises total control over every aspect of life."
London, England, United Kingdom
"As I observed in The Telegraph, some of the scenes were transparently hammy."
United States
"This confirmed and enhanced the seminal work first of Abraham Wyner (a professor of statistics and data science at the University of Pennsylvania)."

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