BBC accused of bias against Israel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1183300,00.html: Israeli officials boast that they now have only to call a number at the network's headquarters in Atlanta to pull any story they do not like.Officials have presented editors with dossiers on individual reporters and singled out organisations such as Sky News for allegedly having an anti-Israel agenda.
The Tel Aviv press has called for the expulsion of correspondents from Sky, the Times and several French papers for failing to cover a story the government mobilised embassies worldwide to get into the media last month.
In her report on Hussam Abdu last week, Guerin noted Israel's desire to gain a public relations advantage from the arrest. She described how the army "paraded the child in front of the international media", and observed that journalists had been prevented from asking him questions and therefore were left only with the army's account of the arrest.(more)
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