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LEADING British filmmaker Ken Loach slammed the BBC yesterday over its biased coverage of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
Mr Loach accused Britain’s public broadcaster of “completely omitting the Palestinian perspective” from coverage watched by millions of people and instead presented “Israel as being under threat from the Palestinians.”
He said the BBC “fails to report that Israel holds the civilian population of Gaza under occupation and siege” in its day to day reporting.
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
The fallout from the Kneecap and Bob Vylan performances at Glastonbury raises questions about the suitability of senior BBC management for their roles, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Despite declining to show Kneecap’s set, the BBC broadcast Bob Vylan leading a ‘death to the IDF’ chant — and the resulting outrage has only amplified the very message the Establishment wanted silenced, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER