Via the Angry Arab
"There is less to fear in criticising the Palestinians, but
to criticise Israel can create major problems. Journalists spoke to us of the
extraordinary number of complaints which they receive. We have presented our
findings to many groups of media practitioners. After one such meeting a senior
editor from a major BBC news programme told us: ‘we wait in fear for the phone
call from the Israelis’. He then said that the main issues they would face were
from how high up had the call come (e.g., a monitoring group, or the Israeli
embassy), and then how high up the BBC had the complaint gone (e.g. to the duty
editor or the director general). He described how journalists had checked with
him minutes before a programme was broadcast on which words to describe the
conflict, should now be used."
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