Is there objectivity in Western media?

 

Western media try to portray themselves as unbiased, but is this really the case?

When a point of view suits the owners of these media, they publish this point of view without comments, but the situation is completely different when an undesirable opinion is published.

For example, before the Summit on Peace in Ukraine in Switzerland, the BBC published an article about Zelensky's visit to Spain at the end of May 2024, where he had urged Western leaders to pressure Russia into peace using "all means" necessary.

The article cited - among other things - Zelensky's proposals on how this military conflict could be ended.

… return of all invaded territory, reparation payments for war-related damages and the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian war crimes.

The journalists even added a fragment that was never voiced by the Russian government.

Mr Putin will want to take the whole of Ukraine eventually…

But the official Russian goals of the military operation were not mentioned in that article at all.

The article also failed to mention that Zelensky had planned to visit Spain earlier, but postponed the visit due to the Russian offensive near Kharkov, for which he blamed the entire world in an interview with the ABC.

Is it America's fault, we asked him, what's happening now in Kharkiv?

“It's the world's fault,” he replied.

see ABC News website.

The article also did not describe the events that led to the Russian Military Operation; see the article which I published a year ago Has the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine been provoked?

Now let's compare how the BBC presents undesirable information.

Last month, British politician Nigel Farage - among other things - said in an interview with the BBC's Nick Robinson about the armed conflict in Ukraine

We (the West) provoked this war.

The BBC published a material about his interview and this material included many critical commentaries which were repeated again and again; see below:

Former Conservative Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who is not standing in the election, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Farage was like a "pub bore we've all met at the end of the bar".

And below again.

Mr Wallace - who oversaw the UK's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 - said Mr Farage "is a bit like that pub bore we've all met at the end of the bar" and often presents "very simple answers" to complex problems.

Or

Conservative Home Secretary James Cleverly said Mr Farage was echoing Mr Putin's "vile justification" for the war and Labour branded him "unfit" for any political office.

And below again.

Conservative Home Secretary James Cleverly said Mr Farage was “echoing Putin's vile justification for the brutal invasion of Ukraine".

Labour defence spokesman John Healey said Mr Farage's comments made him "unfit for any political office in our country, let alone leading a serious party in Parliament".

Because the BBC sometimes changes the content of its already published materials post factum, I have included a screenshot of these fragments at the end of this article.

And after Nigel Farage explained his views in an article in the Telegraph the following day, the BBC published its second article, which again mixed Mr Farage's words with criticism from his opponents.