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Digital Pimpin':
From the Jerusalem Times:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1154525841951&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


--- Quote ---Israel says BBC not reporting war fairly
By GIL HOFFMAN       


The Foreign Ministry is under pressure from Israeli citizens to resume its boycott of the BBC and to withdraw credentials from its reporters due to "one-sided" reports on the war in Lebanon, Israeli diplomatic officials said Wednesday.

For seven months during a wave of Palestinian violence in 2003, Israeli officials boycotted BBC news programs, declining interviews and excluding BBC reporters from briefings. The boycott was ended after the BBC appointed a panel to oversee its Middle East coverage and to ensure it would be unbiased.

The diplomatic officials said the network had not been reporting the war fairly. Senior diplomatic officials in Jerusalem went as far as saying that "the reports we see give the impression that the BBC is working on behalf of Hizbullah instead of doing fair journalism."

Foreign Ministry Deputy Director-General for Media and Public Affairs Gideon Meir, who declined to comment for this article, spoke on Channel 1 about a column that appeared in The Times of London on July 24 in which Stephen Pollard wrote that a BBC program appeared to have been written by Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

"The BBC's coverage has been overwhelmingly one-sided, with presenters and reporters editorializing against what they universally refer to as 'Israeli attacks on Lebanon,'" Pollard wrote.

Col. (res.) Miri Eisen, who is set to take over as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokeswoman on August 20, called the BBC "the only international English-speaking news outlet that is downright hostile to Israel on every level." Eisen told an audience from the Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey on Wednesday that the BBC's coverage was fair during the first week of the war, but then the network moved its anchors from Haifa to Beirut, and since then it has been similar to Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya.

A Foreign Ministry official said the ministry had compiled a dossier of reports from Lebanon by BBC senior correspondent Jeremy Bowen that officials consider biased.

The BBC press office issued a statement in response.

"Our duty is to provide independent reporting and analysis of all perspectives of a story, so our audiences can make sense of what's going on in the world," the press office said.

"There can be times when this is misread by one or other side of a debate. However, this is not to suggest that we do not take complaints extremely seriously; we do. It is also worth noting that the recent independent panel set up by the (BBC) Board of Governors found no deliberate or systematic bias in the BBC's coverage of the Israel-Palestinian conflict."
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.lol at "the BBC ....similar to Al-Jazeera "  ;D

Don Seer:
fuck israel.. they can't fuck with the BBC.. even our goverment has issues with them as they try their best to report everything FAIRLY..  and our government still funds it.. its some funny as shit right there..

BBC is also only "international news organisation" without ANYONE yanking the chain.. no govt, no jewish OR muslim OR christian propoganda..

god they should hear how the UK domestic channels portray this.. e.g. ch4..

Digital Pimpin':
I agree - I think the BBC is portraying it from a humanitarian point of view more than anything and focussing on innocent people getting killed.

Didn't think Channel 4 was that  bad tho?

STILLDRE IS THE GODFATHER:
I USED to watch channel 4 news but that presenter pisses me off now

Digital Pimpin':

--- Quote from: STILLDRE SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING on August 10, 2006, 06:24:56 AM ---I USED to watch channel 4 news but that presenter pisses me off now

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Which one? I used to think Jon Snow was quite good, but he's got a bit big for his boots now. The rest of them ain't that bad, just lacking a few token hotties like Five news  :P

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