BBC Man Lands New York Times Top Job
August 15, 2012 12:07 by Simon Plosker
Mark Thompson
The Daily Telegraph reports that outgoing BBC director general Mark Thompson has been named president and chief executive of the New York Times.
According to the report:
Mr Thompson will relocate to the US and will report to the New York Times’ chairman, Arthur Sulzberger.
“Mark is a gifted executive with strong credentials whose leadership at the BBC helped it to extend its trusted brand identity into new digital products and services,” said Mr Sulzberger.
“Our board concluded that Mark’s experience and his accomplishments at the BBC made him the ideal candidate to lead the Times Company at this moment in time when we are highly focused on growing our business through digital and global expansion.”
This is the same Mark Thompson who was forced to concede to a UK parliamentary hearing that the BBC had got it wrong over coverage of the Itamar massacre. Indeed, this is the same director general that has overseen a wealth of anti-Israel bias at the BBC since he became director general in 2004.
The New York Times’ coverage of Israel is already problematic in the eyes of many. Is this latest appointment a sign that the Gray Lady could descend even further to the level of the BBC?
Fliss
1:01 pm
Aug 15, 2012
From the BBC to the New York Times…no difference really, both are very anti Israeli.
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2:08 am
Aug 17, 2012
[...] our plans and our funding requirements.”–Story at Voice of America Honest Reporting: Al BeeBeeCeera Slime-Bomb Lands New York Slimes Top Job “This is the same Mark Thompson who was forced to concede to a UK parliamentary hearing that the [...]
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Moll
5:29 pm
Aug 19, 2012
As far as biased journalism goes, as noted by the 1st commentator above — between the BBC and the NYTimes, there’s no difference in the blind hatred for the jews, whether individually and/or collectively as in the State of Israel. So, the only changes to expect will be more indicators of this blind “cursing” of the jews. Which as those who have engaged in such activity have come to realize, brings down upon their own heads the curses of lack of credibility, inability to clearly communicate a story without confounding the issue leading to greater confusion for the mindless, thoughtless readership who just want to be “spoon-fed” as to what they should think about M/E issues.
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dennis the menace
10:21 pm
Aug 21, 2012
Why do your recent posts keep disappearing ????
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Mr. Light-Bright
5:54 am
Aug 22, 2012
Evil is out for all media platforms.
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