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BBC gives Israeli ambassador free rein
Israel’s justification for latest assault on Gaza goes unchallenged on flagship “Today” programme
By Stuart Littlewood
Recent scandals calling into question the news-handling skills of Britain’s national broadcaster don’t seem to have improved matters.
After being treated last night to footage of the slaying of Ahmed Jabari, the military leader of Hamas, by an Israeli assassin flying a drone from his armchair and violating Palestinian airspace, I woke this morning to the kind of crass reporting that has sadly become all too common at the BBC.
It’s flagship news programme “Today”, broadcast on Radio 4, ran a particularly idiotic item about Israel’s unleashing of its latest offensive on Gaza and featured an “interview” by John Humphrys with t...