A change in the BBC’s editorial policy caught our attention. Stephen Whittle, BBC’s Controller of Editorial Policy has a new task:
Whittle must now also personally approve of any proposal to employ someone known to have a criminal record or background of illegal activity.
Another suggested change:
…the BBC should normally consider asking contributors to sign contracts – including a declaration of personal information such as criminal convictions or that which may involve personal conflicts of interest.
We have to wonder what this means for Palestinian stringers (like Fayad Abu Shamala) and similar conflicts of interest.
Meanwhile, this completely one-sided BBC report on the Sharon-Abbas meeting suggests little has changed — note that Palestinians are ‘desperately upset’ from Sharon’s ‘unreasonable conditions.’
