“ The BBC went to the
High Court today in an attempt to overturn a ruling that a member of
the public has the right under freedom of information laws to see an
internal report on its Middle East coverage.
Critics of the BBC want to know if the Balen Report, believed to run to
20,000 words, includes evidence of bias against Israel in news
programming.
Steven Sugar, a London solicitor, fought a lengthy battle to get access
to the report under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. ”
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How freaking silly can we
get? That's like CBS asking a commission to discover whether
there was any anti-Bush bias at CBS in the wake of their manufacturing
a story meant to defeat him in the 2004 election. Did any
breathing person need that report? The commission found no such
bias existed. Feh. That sure changed a lot of minds, didn't it?
The only thing that matters is whether the peeps are
sufficiently alert to spot it, and understand the dangers of media
manipulation in a free society. If they're not, or are too
disinterested to care, then "reports" won't matter.
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