Guerin to receive special honor
April 21, 2005 23:45 by ManagingTeam
The BBC’s Orla Guerin has a long record of polemical, anti-Israel reporting on the conflict. JPost now reports that she’s receiving a special citation from the British government:
Israeli officials expressed dismay this week that BBC reporter Orla Guerin, who has come under sharp attack for what some perceive as an anti-Israeli bias in her coverage, will receive an MBE honor from the British government for “outstanding service to broadcasting.”…
One Israeli official, who responded to the news by saying he was “shocked,” said Guerin is among the most anti-Israeli journalists reporting from Israel today.
According to this official, granting her an award fits into a pattern that began in 2003 when the United Kingdom’s Political Cartoon Society awarded Dave Brown of the Independent its “cartoon of the year” award for a cartoon he drew depicting a naked Ariel Sharon biting off the bloodied head of a Palestinian child. “It seems if you are anti-Israel, you will get an award,” the official said.
Pascal
10:05 pm
Apr 24, 2005
O/T, I found a great blog excoriation of the Dan Okrent column today exonerating the Times for bias:
http://mediacrity.blogspot.com/
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blue
1:30 am
Apr 25, 2005
What is like HAIFA UNIVERSITY ? …i would say like Israel’s Berkeley…and they got the boycott ! how irony
HAIFA UNIVERSITY OR MINI PALESTINE?
The student Council of Haifa University, which is half Arab, decided to abolish Israeli Independence Festivities and replace them with Ramadan ceremonies. (Maariv, March 15, 01)
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DLL
3:33 am
Apr 25, 2005
“The student Council of Haifa University, which is half Arab, decided to abolish Israeli Independence Festivities and replace them with Ramadan ceremonies. (Maariv, March 15, 01)”
In that case, let the ban stand.
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Alvin
10:19 am
Apr 25, 2005
Oh, DLL – the boycott is cunningly designed to target only Jews in Israel. While it cannot do so perfectly, it’s in the right direction. You see, students who will blame the Israeli government and accuse it of racism/apartheid etc etc will be exempt from the boycott.
Lovely, isn’t it?
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Tiferet
11:41 am
Apr 25, 2005
If you want to read more about the boycott check Melanie Philips’s Diary.
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/
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Paul McLaughlan
2:11 pm
Apr 25, 2005
I’m angry, ashamed and British. What else can I say?
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Alvin
2:46 pm
Apr 25, 2005
Well, Paul. Nobody holds you responsible for this. It just feels like the AUT have commited a crime, a particularly horrible one but I don’t see what can be done. There’s no court to haul them in front of.
Meanwhile, I still wonder why there isn’t a move to reform the BBC’s employment policy – this is the only way of ensuring the BBC’s bias will cease. Even if the BBC denies the charge of bias, I don’t see how they can resist a reform of their employment policy. Once their bias is a thing of the past, organisations like the AUT will have a much harder time pushing through malicious decisions like this one.
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Rev, Eliah Mauza
3:29 pm
May 02, 2005
I want to communicate your company every week
thank you
Eliah
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Rev, Eliah Mauza
3:29 pm
May 02, 2005
I want to communicate your company every week
thank you
Eliah
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