BBC senior management is on the offensive over Gaza. Stung by the widespread criticism of its refusal to broadcast the DEC Gaza aid appeal in January, it has singled out its key Middle East editor and is trying to bully him into silence.
The BBC Trust’s preposterous attack on Jeremy Bowen last week is a crude […]
Following the decision by BBC Trust yesterday to back Thompson on his refusal to broadast the DEC GAza aid appeal, a petition signed by almost 400 staff was handed to the director general’s office in White City today (Friday Feb 20) at 13.00. A copy of the petition was also be simultaneously delivered to the […]
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The debate over of the BBC’s refusal to air the DEC Gaza aid appeal has largely overlooked an important document. In 2006 a BBC investigation into the impartiality of its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict found that there was a “disparity” in favour of Israel because the Corporation failed to make clear that the Palestinians […]
The BBC is still seething in response to it’s director general Mark Thompson’s decision not to broadcast the Gaza aid appeal.
At least three BBC NUJ workplace branches have passed motions calling on the BBC to transmit the Gaza aid appeal. A petition is circulating within the corporation which concludes: “The victims of Gaza deserve the […]
This article assesses the BBC Board’s arguments not to broadcast the Disasters Emergency Committee.
1. BBC director general Mark Thomson says: “The danger for the BBC is that this could be interpreted as taking a political stance on an ongoing story. When we have turned down DEC appeals in the past on impartiality grounds it has […]
The UN said on Wednesday night that the Israeli military had privately admitted that the shelling of a UN school in Jabaliya which killed more than 40 Palestinians on Tuesday was in response to militant fire from OUTSIDE, not inside, the UN compound.
This fact was ignored by ALL the mainstream media apart from Rory McCarthy […]
Robert Fisk explains that “It is the job of journalists to be impartial on the side of those who suffer most” in an excellent discussion of media coverage of the Gaza conflict on the World Service (Jan 7).
Below there follows a transcript of Fisk’s remarks on Israeli censorship, journalistic impartiality and Middle East history, which […]
Muntadar al-Zeidi, the correspondent for Iraqi-owned Al-Baghdadiya television based who threw shoes at Bush in Baghdad yesterday, shouted “Killer of Iraqis, killer of children” as he threw his shoes at the US president – showing the soles of your shoes is regarded as an extreme form of disrespect in Iraq.
Middle East expert Juan Cole reports […]
