Saturday, December 12, 2015

BBC forced to admit it misled over Palestine


The grim reality endured by Palestinians under Israeli occupation is apparently of little concern to BBC’s flagship radio news program.
 Yoram RonenActiveStills

For the second time in just over six months, the BBC has been forced to admit that its flagship news and current affairs program — Today — has misled its audiences over the situation in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
In a broadcast in October, veteran presenter John Humphrys and Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly implied in a two-way conversation that all of those killed in that month’s violence were Israeli.
In fact, at the date of broadcast, on 19 October, more than 40 of those killed were Palestinian and fewer than 10 Israeli...Read more

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