Ian Burrel is absolutely right to say that there`s
"no room for complacency" at the BBC.(BBC can`t win as both sides accuse it of
bias over the Middle East,28/07/14) It`s also true that the "caution that
existed in the wake" of the 2004 Hutton report has increased with the more
recent Savile revelations, and this is reflected in its coverage of the
indiscriminate killing in Gaza. Burrel may "reject the idea" of pro-Israeli
bias, but the lack of detailed analysis about how international law is being
flouted in the blockade of Gaza, and the allowing of Israeli spokesmen to churn
out prepared lines about the enemy, Hamas, without explaining why their war is
against the Gazan population suggest otherwise.
By attempting to avoid controversy, and pursue a
"neutral course", the BBC has shifted rightwards, and ignoring to give due
coverage to the worldwide anti-Israeli protests, and appointing a right-wing
economist as Newsnight presenter, and soon, a right-wing politician as its
Trust chairperson, prove it!
IMO anyone seeing BBCnews as biased toward the "left" is probably incapable of making an honest assessment" of anything.
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