BBC pays £200,000 to 'cover up report on anti-Israel bias'

Daily Mail by Paul Revoir | Mar. 24, 2007 (News Report)

The BBC has been accused of "shameful hypocrisy" over its decision to spend £200,000 blocking a freedom of information request about its reporting in the Middle East.

The corporation, which has itself made extensive use of FOI requests in its journalism, is refusing to release papers about an internal inquiry into whether its reporting has been biased towards Palestine.

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 by Mark Monday - Oct. 1, 2008

Controversy over journalistic behavior seldom makes news. The blogs talk about such issues -- pro-Israel, pro-Palestinian, pro-Bush, pro-Pelosi -- constantly. Generally there is more smoke than substance in blogs. Here, however, is a genuine controversy with real questions. Whatever the truth may be about the contents of the report, this cannot but help expand our understanding of how to judge what we read.

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