Sunday, June 20, 2004

BBC Radio Farce - more BBC bias exposed

Hot on the heals of NRO's scathing expose of the BBC's continuing anti-America campaign, we have more BBC bias exposed by Honest Reporting

The BBC has now produced a third, almost farcical response. After nearly four years of relentless worldwide protest against its egregiously anti-Israel coverage (see HonestReporting critiques here, here and here, and the 2001 Dishonest Reporting Award), including an official Israeli government boycott of the network, BBC Radio has lately served up some fictional drama. The format: BBC talk-shows that ostensibly tackle the central problems of news coverage of the Mideast conflict, but include only on-air 'experts' who vindicate the BBC, or even accuse BBC of being too pro-Israel. Consider:

The June 15 BBC Radio 3 'Night Waves' program focused on misleading media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ― listen to it here (RealPlayer, first 13 minutes). The program includes three guests: two BBC editors, and Professor Greg Philo of Glasgow University, who recently produced a study claiming anti-Palestinian media bias in news coverage of the conflict. (Philo is a notorious anti-Israeli ideologue, whose biggest fans seem to be John Pilger and Noam Chomsky.)

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