{"id":2176,"date":"2009-01-25T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T20:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2009-01-25T15:20:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T20:20:04","slug":"the-berating-of-the-beeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-berating-of-the-beeb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Berating of the Beeb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update:<\/em> Here are a couple of interesting perspectives from Melanie Phillips<\/a> and Andrew Roberts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the face of it, sending aid to people in Gaza who need it must be a good thing, mustn’t it? The BBC – an organisation renowned for its leftist tilt on life – decided not to\u00a0 broadcast a Gaza humanitarian appeal on the grounds that its reputation for impartiality would be dented. I’ll repeat that: its reputation for impartiality would be dented<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In fact, it appears that they did this for an entirely different, but nevertheless equally worthy reason: to annoy the play-socialist aristocrat, Tony Benn, one time BBC employee. Here Benn\u00a0 denounces the BBC with weeping and gnashing of teeth:<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/ca.youtube.com\/watch?v=OD1-jjQguyI]<\/p>\n

Benn’s interviewer questioned whether the aid would actually reach its intended recipients or be diverted to Hamas; a nonplussed Anthony Wedgwood Benn characteristically ignored the question and started spouting propaganda. When pressed, he admited that money could end up going to Hamas – something that he would welcome considering his anti-Israel<\/a> proclivities.<\/p>\n

Those denouncing the BBC are legion, including, naturally, Rowan Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All of which leads me to think that, for a change, the BBC might be doing something right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: Here are a couple of interesting perspectives from Melanie Phillips and Andrew Roberts. On the face of it, sending aid to people in Gaza who need it must be a good thing, mustn’t it? The BBC – an organisation … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[2227],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}