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BBC spends £200,000 of licence fees on legal fight to suppress report on anti-Israeli 'bias'
Daily Mail ^ | 2/11/09 | Paul Revoir

Posted on 02/11/2009 5:47:18 PM PST by Nachum

A campaigner trying to force the BBC to publish an internal report on alleged bias in its Middle East coverage won the latest round of a legal battle yesterday.

The Law Lords held by a 3-2 majority that a case brought by London lawyer Steven Sugar under the Freedom of Information Act was wrongly blocked by legal rulings at earlier hearings.

The BBC is understood to have spent £200,000 on the case which has been through the Information Tribunal, the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

It now returns to the High Court for further argument.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: antiisraeli; bbc; bias; licence; ungland

1 posted on 02/11/2009 5:47:18 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Just to let you all know, the BBC doesn’t have commercials as it’s State TV. You must however buy a license to watch it on your TV. They actually have vans that patrol neighborhoods looking for signals coming into homes that haven’t paid the license fee. The fine is quite hefty. Those of you who think a Socialist Government isn’t much like Big Brother, please WAKE UP!


2 posted on 02/11/2009 5:50:02 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: Nachum; conservatism_IS_compassion

Great post! Thanks.

I read it a couple of hours ago...here...

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=43053&c=1

Ping.


3 posted on 02/11/2009 6:14:05 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Nachum

the bias is flagrant, with anti- Israel comments nearly every podcast, and zero time observing israel is acting in self defense against self-destructive enemies.


4 posted on 02/11/2009 6:30:44 PM PST by ctdonath2
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