Radio: The BBC’s Guerin Defense and Jimmy Carter’s Praise for Hamas

Listen to Yarden Frankl on the Voice of Israel by clicking on the image above or on this link to play.

HonestReporting’s Yarden Frankl joins VOI’s Josh Hasten to discuss this week’s media coverage of Israel including the BBC’s response to complaints about Orla Guerin’s Gaza conflict dispatch and coverage of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s praise for Hamas.

CORRECTION: Orla Guerin was not the BBC correspondent who cried when an ailing Yasser Arafat left Gaza. That distinction belongs to BBC correspondent Barbara Plett. Full story from our files here.