Yup all media does this constantly and its very telling about their agenda and biases.

Last I looked into it, journalists couldn’t verify Iran’s claims quickly due to Iran preventing them from entering the country freely.

It’s not a double standard. It’s journalistic integrity.

Are you being sarcastic our serious?

From the BBC article

But it has not been able to independently verify the death toll - international news organizations are often refused visas to Iran which severely limits their ability to gather information there.

The BBC never verifies anything the IDF says it just plain copy pastes it. The BBC middle east editor is literally an Israeli agent. Israel has a military censor on journalists which dictates what they are allowed to report on.

https://www.owenjones.news/p/bbc-staff-were-forced-to-do-pro-israel

Just gonna throw it out there...

It's not A, it's B.

Is a llm /bot sentence structure. They'll often use it when they want to draw attention to something they want you to find quasi profound, or some kind of major finding.

Not to say op is a bot. But if you see this phrase used in language, you should raise you hackles.

There are journalists all over Iran reporting on the attacks there. It is Israel that continuously censors and denies access to journalists.

get back to Reddit hasbarat

“Op is a bot” is unfortunately not a convincing argument anymore as LLMs are pretty good at sounding just like humans.