BBC OFFERS ADVICE TO PALI JOURNOS

YOU MIGHT THINK THIS ADVICE WOULD BE ALONG THE LINES OF..."DON'T KIDNAP OUR JOURNALISTS." NOPE.

BBC offers Palestinians 'support' (UK Telegraph)

The BBC has been advertising for a “Project Director, Palestinian Territories” to advise Palestinian journalists. On what? Impartiality?

The BBC is offering advice to Palestinian journalists

“And I thought WE hated the Israelis,” I can imagine Hamas journalists saying after an hour or two of Auntie’s “advice”.

Like me, you may have been unaware that building up broadcast media in the West Bank and Gaza was part of the BBC’s remit. But let me quote the advertisement:

“The Project Director will be responsible for managing and co-ordinating delivery of the Trust’s EIDHR-Dutch co-funded project in Palestine titled: ‘Support for the Palestinian Media Sector with Focus on Building Sustainable Mechanisms for Professional Development of Journalists and Media Professionals’. The project aims to increase the level of networking and dialogue between media professionals in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.”

The EIDHR, by the way, is some stupid European Union quango. You can find its documents on the internet. Unlike the Corporation’s own suppressed Balen Report into its Middle East coverage, about which it is mysteriously reluctant to “network and dialogue”.

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