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 Jami Dwyer - Oct. 1, 2008

Biased speculation. I almost wrote that the U.S. government doesn't go after journalists for their imagined opinions, but then I remembered McCarthy and, recently, Republican Ken Mehlman. But at least in the Mehlman case, I don't recall any other so-called journalists cheering his witchhunt on, as the "Daily Mail" does here.