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'''bbcwatch''' is an organisation set up to pressurise the [[BBC]] into producing news coverage more favourable to Israel. The main figure behind the group is an English solicitor called [[Trevor Asserson]] who in 2005 set up a legal practice with offices in London, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. | '''bbcwatch''' is an organisation set up to pressurise the [[BBC]] into producing news coverage more favourable to Israel. The main figure behind the group is an English solicitor called [[Trevor Asserson]] who in 2005 set up a legal practice with offices in London, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. | ||
| − | bbcwatch has produced a number of reports detailing [[BBC]] output and | + | bbcwatch has produced a number of reports detailing [[BBC]] output and incidents or trends evidencing a perceived bias. For example the organisation's first report, entitled 'The BBC and the Middle East - a Critical Study', argued amongst other things that the BBC should use the perjorative term 'terrorism' to described Hamas; that the West Bank and Gaza should not be described as ‘occupied Palestinian Land’ or ‘occupied Palestinian territories’ since it suggests that there previously existed an 'autonomous sovereign Palestinian territory'; that Yasser Arafat should not be described as President; and that the illegal settlements in the West Bank and Gaza should not be described as being 'illeged' because but rather as 'disputed territories'. <ref>bbcwatch, '[http://www.bbcwatch.com/Reports/Report_1.pdf The BBC and the Middle East - a Critical Study]', March 2002</ref> |
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Revision as of 08:08, 19 March 2010
bbcwatch is an organisation set up to pressurise the BBC into producing news coverage more favourable to Israel. The main figure behind the group is an English solicitor called Trevor Asserson who in 2005 set up a legal practice with offices in London, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
bbcwatch has produced a number of reports detailing BBC output and incidents or trends evidencing a perceived bias. For example the organisation's first report, entitled 'The BBC and the Middle East - a Critical Study', argued amongst other things that the BBC should use the perjorative term 'terrorism' to described Hamas; that the West Bank and Gaza should not be described as ‘occupied Palestinian Land’ or ‘occupied Palestinian territories’ since it suggests that there previously existed an 'autonomous sovereign Palestinian territory'; that Yasser Arafat should not be described as President; and that the illegal settlements in the West Bank and Gaza should not be described as being 'illeged' because but rather as 'disputed territories'. [1]
Notes
- ↑ bbcwatch, 'The BBC and the Middle East - a Critical Study', March 2002
