Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Very good news from CAMERA: BBC Trust Finds Bowen Violated Guideline Requiring Impartiality
...The BBC has determined that its Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, had violated the broadcaster's ethical guidelines calling for impartiality and accuracy. The finding is likely to amplify concerns that BBC news coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict is largely biased against Israel.
The March 31, 2009 decision by the Editorial Standards Committee (ESC), a unit of the BBC's top decision-making body, the BBC Trust, comes in response to a formal complaint filed by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), and a similar complaint filed independently by a member of the U.K.-based Zionist Federation.
CAMERA's complaint charged that Bowen's June 4, 2007 article about the Six-Day War and its aftermath was marred by "serious omissions, exaggerations and outright anti-Israel bias." The detailed complaint came before the ESC after the BBC News Web site and Editorial Complaints Unit defended Bowen's article...
CAMERA promises more complete details shortly. Commentary and lengthy discussion already ongoing at Harry's. Good news and the report should be interesting (Bowen has long been one of the stars of the BBC's rogues gallery), but we don't really expect much to change do we?
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Honest Reporting has another posting up with even more detail on the BBC's finding of bias against their own Jeremy Bowen: Special Alert: BBC Mideast Editor Guilty of Inaccuracy on Israel [Previous]. His history goes way back. Worry not, Robert... Read More
Hallelujah.