"It is within our guidelines for experienced correspondents to give their honest opinion, provided this is approached without any preconceived view", says the BBC.
Is this fully acceptable to the BBC then?:
Is there any other place in the world where your race determines whether you're allowed on a bus ? http://t.co/0uPl4hcEsG #Israel #palestine
— Jon Donnison (@jondonnisonbbc) May 20, 2015
P.S. Jon's BBC colleague Jeremy Bowen has broken his Twitter silence after nearly a month.
To tweet about the fall of Palmyra to Islamic State? No, of course not.
Like JonDon, he's tweeting a negative news story from Israel from (inevitably)Haaretz:
Obama: Netanyahu's anti-Arab remarks likely to have foreign policy consequences http://t.co/OBTxGO19os
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) May 21, 2015They're nothing if not consistent, are they, these Israel critics at the BBC?
Two probs. 1. ) Netanyahu has vetoed this plan. 2.) Is there any other place in the world where your race determines whether you’re allowed in a state? Yes, Abbas has ‘determined’ “No Jews in a future Pali state.”
ReplyDeleteAnd Saudi Arabia.
DeleteAn opinion without a perceived view? WTF? That statement puts the 'moron' in 'oxymoron'. Does that mean an opinion which isn't perceived to express an unapproved thought, perhaps? Or one that the Beeboids think is a mainstream, middle ground view?
ReplyDeleteGood Lord. This has to be their justification for the entire class of titled editors.
BBC Editorial Guidelines seem yet another of their little unique jokes, even if any at the BBC obey their own concoctions, which they don't.
ReplyDeleteI wonder, given the BBC's love of semantic weasels, cop outs and exemptions, does the above rule mean inexperienced correspondents can give a dishonest view, so long as they approach it with glaring partisan bias?