purveyor of Propaganda for the powerful. -the sad reality of the bbc- again

in just over two days I came across  two stories that show the sad reality  of the biggest, publicily funded, news organisations in the world.  The beeb shows what it is really about. It is the purveyor of Propaganda for the  powerful.

BBC criticised for dropping film with 'severe ramifications' questioning the mass exodus of Jewish people after fall of Jerusalem in AD70

• Film maker Ilan Ziv accuses the BBC of succumbing to political pressure
• Jerusalem: An Archaeological Mystery Story was due to air last Thursday
• BBC claims the documentary was axed because it 'did not fit editorially'
• Viewers attack the Corporation for dropping the show
• Academic Dr Siam Bhayro says axing of the show is strange, given the BBC's past record of airing controversial documentaries

Film maker Ilan Ziv accused the BBC of 'incompetence' and suggested they succumbed to 'conscious or subconscious political pressure' after they decided not to broadcast it.

In a blog post, Mr Ziv said the decision to axe the programme was: 'Ultimately a sad saga of what I believe is a mixture of incompetence, political naiveté, conscious or subconscious political pressure and, I believe, a lack of courage of broadcasters when they are faced with the complexity of the Middle East issue and the intense emotions, fears and aggression it generates.'

'Ridiculous pandering to a small interest group! The BBC used to ask the tough questions.....now they cower in fear due to some fundamentalist Zionists whose world vision is as warped as any other fundamentalist religious group.'

Controversial documentary: Jerusalem: An Archaeological Mystery Story questioned whether the Jewish exile from Jerusalem in AD70 ever happened

The BBC denied that the film had been dropped because it was controversial and said it 'did not fit editorially' with a series of historical archeology films.

However, Israeli-born Mr Ziv claimed a 'mini political storm was brewing' at the Corporation in the days before the documentary was due to broadcast.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316492/BBC-criticised-dropping-film-severe-ramifications-questioning-mass-exodus-Jewish-people-fall-Jerusalem-AD70.html

Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC

Amena Saleem 

The Electronic Intifada 

London 

23 April 2013

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Israel’s occupation is airbrushed from the BBC’s coverage.

 (Issam Rimawi / APA images)

The American poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month.” The phrase springs to mind in April 2013, the month that a new director-general took up his post at the BBC and, within two weeks, had installed a line-up of hardline Zionists at the top of the world’s largest publicly-funded news organization.

Soon after his own appointment, Hall named James Harding as the BBC’s new director of news and current affairs. Until December, Harding was editor of The Times, an avowedly right-wing, pro-Israeli paper owned byRupert Murdoch’s News International group.

In 2011, Harding spoke at a media event organized by The Jewish Chronicle, telling his audience: “I am pro-Israel. I believe in the State of Israel. I would have had a real problem if I had been coming to a paper [The Times] with a history of being anti-Israel. And, of course, Rupert Murdoch is pro-Israel.”

Glee

The strongly Zionist Jewish Chronicle reprinted those words with glee as news of Harding’s BBC appointment broke. And it also took the opportunity to remind its readers that, during the Israeli massacre in Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009, when more than 1,400 Palestinians were slaughtered, Harding wrote a Times editorial titled, “In defense of Israel” (“Signs of The Times at JCC,” 14 April 2011).

http://electronicintifada.net/content/apologists-israel-take-top-posts-bbc/12395