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Is BBC Panorama just a useful propaganda tool?
ALISON BANVILLE takes to task the BBC flagship programme over its investigation of British foreign aid diversion to extremist groups in Syria
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The “shocking” Panorama episode aired on Monday evening which explored British taxpayer money as foreign aid diverted to extremist groups in Syria has been presented as brave and uncompromising journalism typical of the BBC flagship investigative current affairs programme.
But it actually amounted to nothing more than an exercise in misdirecting the British public as to the true nature and scale of the government's collusion with jihadists in that country and in doing so the programme makers obscured rather than exposed the true agenda here.
Two days before the episode was aired, independent investigative journalist Vanessa Beeley published a deep expose of the entire affair based on her own on-the-ground, investigations inside Syria.
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