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Citations Needed

News Brief: BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of Legitimacy

Citations Needed

Citations Needed

Bias, News, Media, Society & Culture, Journalism, Criticism, Politics

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this News Brief, we interview journalist Daniel Trilling and discuss his investigation into the BBC's systemic anti-Palestinian bias.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Adam from Citations Needed, the podcast you're currently listening to. Just a real quick note for our listeners, which is, I have written a book. It is called How to Sell a Genocide, the Media's Complicity and the Destruction of Gaza that is now available for pre-order. It's a data-driven and thorough account of how Center Left Media sold the public on mass death in Gaza. It is out April 21st. 100% of the royalties go to Middle East Children's

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Alliance for Peace, a non-profit organization that advances the rights and well-being of children

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in the Middle East, especially in Palestine and Lebanon. You can order the book with the promo code

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media 30 for 30% off the paperback and e-book at Plutobooks.com. That's Plutobooks.com. If you search their website for

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how to sell a genocide, you will find it, or you can just search Google, how to sell a genocide Pluto books. It should come up. It is also sold at other finer bookstores, but if you want to get the 30% off promo code for pre-orders, go to Plutobooks.com. You can order that there. And again, 100% of the royalties do go to Middle East Children's Alliance. So if you want to order it, please do.

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I just wanted to.com, you can order that there. And again, 100% of the royalties do go to Middle East Children's Alliance.

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So if you want to order it, please do. Just wanted to let you know that that is now available

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for pre-order. It comes out in April.

1:06.5

Welcome to a Citation's Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi. I'm Madam Johnson.

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You can follow the show on Twitter and Blue Sky at CitationsPod.

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We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled

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full-length episodes of citations needed, and today we are very excited to be joined by journalist

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and author Daniel Trilling. He is a contributor at the London Review of Books, an associate lecturer

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in journalism at London College of Communication, where he works with the Refugee Journalism

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Project. He's also the author of the book's Lights in the Distance, Exile and Refuge at the

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Borders of Europe, and Bloody Nasty People, the Rise of Britain's Far Right. Daniel's latest

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investigation is a deep dive into the culture of fear at the BBC over its coverage of Gaza these

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past two years, which was recently published in Equator magazine, a new independent reader-funded

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nonprofit publication. So Daniel is going to join us today to talk about his new piece. It's

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