BBC uses account of journalist working for Iran-backed news agency in Palestine deaths article

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...-in-palestine-deaths-article/ar-BB1jjYTF

Danny Cohen, the former director of BBC Television, accused the corporation of “failing in the most basic of journalistic practices” by not checking one of its key sources.

Writing in The Telegraph, he said: “The BBC has a habit of accepting at face value what they are told by people who present as Palestinian civilians or officials from civic authorities and either don’t understand or don’t care that they are representatives of terrorist organisations.



Lots more in the actual article, but that's basically it. It was all a lie.

It takes a village to raise an idiot.