Britain - BBC sanctions reporter who cried over Arafat

Look where the BBC buried the story on Barbara Plett's sanctioning over her crying for Arafat on the air - the entertainment section!

The BBC governors have upheld part of a complaint against a journalist who said she "started to cry" as a dying Yasser Arafat left the West Bank in 2004.

Her comments "breached the requirements of due impartiality", they ruled.

Barbara Plett was initially cleared by the head of editorial complaints over the From Our Own Correspondent report on Radio 4 but a listener appealed.

By these standards, almost all of the BBC journalist would have to be santioned.

Good on the listener who kept up the pressure and appealed.

Now, if we could just get an independent body to investigate the Case Against the BBC.
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