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  Why BBC doesn’t call Hamas militants ’terrorists’

  11 October, by SIMPSON John

  Government ministers, newspaper columnists, ordinary people - they’re all asking why the BBC doesn’t say the Hamas gunmen who carried out appalling atrocities in southern Israel are terrorists.
  The answer goes right back to the BBC’s founding principles.
  Terrorism is a loaded word, which (...)

• Media (UK)

  Britain - Blood Sport: the BBC vs the Tories

  11 March, by PEARSON Simon

  Simon Pearson says it’s a classic case of power versus principle, and the stakes have never been higher. In the end, it’s not just about football - it’s about the very soul of our democracy.
  The BBC. It’s a monolithic, behemoth of an institution that looms over the British media landscape (...)

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  Britain: Should the Left Defend the BBC Against Johnson?

  30 March 2021, by KELLAWAY Dave

  In an ever-crowded media space, Dave Kellaway asks if the state broadcaster is fit for the 21^st Century?
  “Far better to draw on the promise of public media that the BBC still embodies, its accrued legitimacy, infrastructure and expertise, and to repurpose it towards genuinely public and (...)