BBC coverage of the Middle East Conflict

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We the undersigned urge the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to launch an independent investigation into BBC coverage of the Middle East conflict in view of powerful perceptions that it is biased against the State of Israel, starting with an instruction to the BBC to release the Balen Report into its coverage of the Middle East conflict.

The BBC claims that impartial reporting is central to its Charter yet listeners and viewers who dispute the impartiality of BBC coverage of the conflict report that their concerns are ignored and their evidence, however powerful, is dismissed by the BBC.

The BBC used hundreds of thousands of pounds of money taken from the License Fee firstly to produce the Balen report which investigated whether its Middle East coverage was biased, and then to go through the Courts to suppress its findings.

License Fee payers who funded this report should be entitled to view the Balen Report and make up their own minds about what he says.

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2011-04-14 06:41:27Added on:

one year ago 

Frances Waddams By:

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Petition target:
Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport


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19/6/11
1Biodegradable1
If you stop watching the BBC you won't know how biased their reporting is.

Just stop paying for it!
18/4/11
Andrew Jones
I have a question.

The BBC state that they are able to withold the findings of the Balen report as it's 'an internal document' or something to that effect.

My question is then whether they would see fit to withold a similarly 'internal' document with the same vigour if such a document had an entirely inconsequential content? Say, does the BBC devote too much time to programmes on cooking etc....

Does anyone see what I'm getting at?
16/4/11
Steven
Forget these petitions - working with the current BBC leadership will not work. Instead just stop watching the BBC and make sure that everyone you know is informed about how shoddy their 'reporting' is.

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