Another MSM outlet looks at Balen

Keith Dovkants at This is London also picks up on the Balen Report angle to the BBC's decision on the Gaza appeal.

Somewhere deep in the bowels of the BBC is a top secret document that could explain a great deal about the corporation's decision to boycott the aid appeal for Gaza. It is called the Balen Report and has been seen only by a small number of individuals at the very top of the BBC. They commissioned Malcolm Balen, a senior editorial adviser, to investigate allegations that the BBC's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was biased.

Comments

[Rupert Wyndham]

In the light, in particular, of all the specious and hypocritical BBC protestations about safeguarding impartiality, Dovkants' disclosure is extremely interesting. Has he followed up - with a FOI request, for example.

Rgds

RW

[Bishop Hill]

Rupert

The Balen report is already the subject of an FoI request. That's what the House of Lords is discussing.

[Rupert Wyndham]

Thanks for this. Evidently, the Report is no longer quite so secret! You're plainly up to speed on this. Can you point in the direction of a convenient summary of the position? I'd be interested and grateful.

ATB

RW

[Bishop Hill]

There's Wiki...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balen_Report