How the BBC Downplayed News of the Holocaust https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2015/11/how-the-bbc-downplayed-news-of-the-holocaust/

November 19, 2015 | David B. Green
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In November 1943, Robert Foot, the director-general of the British Broadcasting Company, instructed his reporters not to give too much attention to reports of the Nazi slaughter of Jews. David B. Green writes (free registration required):

[Foot] warned employees not to broadcast anything that might be designed “to correct the undoubted anti-Semitic feeling which is held very largely throughout the country.”

He was concerned . . . that any undue focus on the suffering of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe might actually “increase rather than decrease the anti-Jewish feeling in this country.” Foot’s instructions . . . reflected a range of institutional attitudes in the United Kingdom toward Jews that ranged from the ambivalent to the downright anti-Semitic, as well as an unusually patronizing opinion of the general public. . . .

[A]side from a period of several months in 1942, when the fate of the Jews was allotted more attention in the British press, coverage for the most part remained laconic.

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