Thursday, 21 May 2015

More from the BBC’s Head of Editorial Complaints...


There's more on BBC complaints over at BBC Watch - this time concerning Tim Willcox and his remark to the daughter of a Holocaust survivor during the post-Charlie Hebdo rally in Paris: "Many critics though of Israel's policy would suggest that the Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well". 

The BBC’s Head of Editorial Complaints, Fraser Steel, has updated his earlier responses by conceding that he misunderstood the actual point that critics of Tim Willcox were making, but that it still doesn't make any difference to his preliminary findings. 

The original verdict stands: Tim Willcox's words were "poorly phrased, but no worse than that".

As Hadar writes, "Four months (and goodness knows how many publicly funded man-hours) on, the BBC has not budged an inch."