Subscribe Feed (RSS)The BBBC half-heartedly admits partiality
November 26th, 2005 by eyal | Filed under Politics. |
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Finally after years of irresponsible journalism the Biased British Broadcasting Corporation admits its reporting bias. I would have expected the same regarding its past “documentaries”.
[...] I have long said the BBC is a seriously biased media source regarding the Middle East. If one uses the BBC as their main source of news for that region then one’s knowledge is not that of reality but of the agenda the BBC is trying to promote. The BBC is obviously not keen on the truth coming out, not even that of a report it has sanctioned itself. The irony is quite astounding, a news agency fighting a court case to keep a report secret and away from the public eyes. The BBC has spent thousands of pounds of licence payers’ money trying to block the release of a report which is believed to be highly critical of its Middle East coverage. The corporation is mounting a landmark High Court action to prevent the release of The Balen Report under the Freedom of Information Act, despite the fact that BBC reporters often use the Act to pursue their journalism. The action will increase suspicions that the report, which is believed to run to 20,000 words, includes evidence of anti-Israeli bias in news programming. [...]