Propaganda often works in subtle ways. Consider a BBC News headline on its website on 3 October:
‘Israeli air strike kills 18 people in occupied West Bank’
This was noteworthy in that, for once, the BBC had made it clear that Israel was responsible for killing people, rather than using a contorted form of wording that obscured culpability as it so often does: ‘18 people die in latest violence in the West Bank’.
However, by the next day, the BBC headline read:
‘Israeli strike kills Hamas commander in occupied West Bank’
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