November 20, 2012
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Who is Jonathan Sacerdoti, the BBC’s Go-To Man on Gaza? by Hilary Aked
The BBC presented Sacerdoti as a neutral Middle East commentator, the director of an innocuously named organisation called the Institute for Middle Eastern Democracy; this neutrality was clearly implied by the lack of any alternative perspective offered and the failure to identify him as affiliated to either the Israeli or Palestinian ‘camp’. Each time he… Continue reading
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As Israel assaults Gaza, BBC reporting assaults the truth By Amena Saleem
The panel, chaired by Sir Quentin Thomas, a senior figure in the British Home Office, found “identifiable shortcomings, particularly in respect of gaps in coverage, analysis, context and perspective and in the consistent maintenance of the BBC’s own editorial standards.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 