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| Israeli lobby 'behind BBC's refusal to air charity ad' |
| 2009-01-28 |
| Pressure from Israel and its lobbies may have directly influenced BBC's decision to refuse to air a fundraising advertisement for the victims of Gaza, veterans from the British broadcaster suggested. Y'mean they applied more pressure with more finesse than the Arab countries and their lobbies? Tusk tusk. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Unlike Gazan children ,few of any of Darfur children look overweight. Enough said about this "charity". |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-01-28 16:22 |
| #5 So the BBC is incapable of making a decision on it its own? They have to wet their fingers and see which way the wind is blowing first? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-01-28 15:00 |
| #4 Here's one guy it pissed off... VIENNA, Austria (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear agency canceled interviews with the BBC over its refusal to air an appeal for victims of the Gaza conflict, saying Wednesday that the decision violated "basic human decency." Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei added an influential voice to growing criticism of Britain's publicly funded broadcaster, which says airing the appeal would have damaged its impartiality in coverage of the conflict. ElBaradei's office said he had canceled scheduled interviews with BBC radio and World Service television because he believes the broadcaster's refusal to air the appeal "violates the rules of basic human decency which are there to help vulnerable people irrespective of who is right or wrong." ElBaradei's outspokenness on the issue is unusual for the head of a U.N agency whose mandate has nothing to do with the Middle East or humanitarian issues but it is in keeping with his record. Yaaaaaawn. Anybody got Blixie's number? Or should we just wait til he calls us? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-28 13:39 |
| #3 This conspiracy theory for moonbats was predicted a few days ago - can't remember where I read it though. The idea is the BBC benefits by looking gloriously, achingly, impartial to the casual observer, and at the same time giving the impression that its ideological enemies would deny aid to already-suffering Palestinian kiddies. Maybe the consipracy's true, or maybe the BBC actually does want to make an unusual gesture of impartiality. You decide... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2009-01-28 13:30 |
| #2 Israeli lobby in UK? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-28 12:43 |
| #1 All done without bombs on subways. Which has shown in the BBC's participation as being the sock puppet of radical Islamic terrorists, to also be effective in altering programming standards. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-01-28 08:37 |