“Last night, the BBC told one of the grossest lies of omission I have ever seen in the mainstream media. It published a report about the disturbances outside a migrant hotel in County Dublin in Ireland and nowhere did it mention what triggered the riotous behaviour. Three hundred and eighty-seven words pumped into the gadgets of the masses, every one of them devoted to damning the ‘thuggery’ of those who assembled at the hotel. Not one of the words – not one – addressed the thing that angered them.
What was that thing? It was the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old Irish girl by a failed ‘asylum seeker’ on the grounds of the hotel. An alleged assault so serious that the girl was hospitalised. What’s more, this is a highly vulnerable girl in the care of the state. Maybe none of that matters to the BBC. Perhaps the alleged violation of a defenceless innocent by a man who was meant to have been deported from Ireland is immaterial to the aloof scribes of Britain’s public broadcaster. How else do we explain that they essentially redacted this information, the most salient part of the story, from their initial dispatch on the fury gripping a community across the Irish Sea?”
How the British broadcaster made the terror group its silent partner in Gaza.
By Adam Lebor
What little we do know about the film’s methodology comes from an article on the BBC website—since removed—by Jamie Roberts, the independent British filmmaker who collaborated on the project with Yousef Hammash, a Gaza-born Palestinian, of London-based Hoyo Films. Roberts wrote that he and Hammash co-directed the film from London, using two local cameramen, who they directed via phone and WhatsApp. Roberts mentioned Israel’s restrictions on international journalists entering Gaza but not Abdullah’s connections to Hamas or Hamas’s censorship. Instead he presented the narratives as freely gathered. (Attempts to contact Hoyo Films were unsuccessful.)
As for the BBC, when controversy erupted it tried to blame Hoyo Films. On February 19, two days after the program premiered, the BBC added contextual detail to the film’s opening: “The narrator of this film is 13-year-old Abdullah. His father has worked as a deputy agriculture minister for the Hamas-run government in Gaza. The production team had full editorial control of filming with Abdullah.” An additional statement on the BBC website noted, “We followed all of our usual compliance procedures in the making of this film, but we had not been informed of this information by the producers when we complied and then broadcast the film.”
This “dog ate my homework” excuse, of course, raised more questions. If the BBC had followed all of its “compliance procedures,” how did senior executives—and films about such sensitive subjects as the war in Gaza get vetted by multiple editors—not know that the key narrator was the son of a Hamas minister?
This “dog ate my homework” excuse, of course, raised more questions. If the BBC had followed all of its “compliance procedures,” how did senior executives—and films about such sensitive subjects as the war in Gaza get vetted by multiple editors—not know that the key narrator was the son of a Hamas minister?
Two days after adding this threadbare “correction,” the network finally decided it could no longer stand behind the documentary and withdrew it from broadcast.
This still-developing scandal might just be the biggest ever for the BBC involving its coverage of the Middle East, and one that could threaten the flow of funds upon which it depends. Badenoch has declared war on the BBC’s license fee, the mandatory annual payment of $214 that everyone in Britain who watches live TV pays. “I cannot see how my party could support the continuation of the current license fee–based system without serious action by the BBC management to prove the organization is committed to true impartiality,” she wrote to the BBC’s Davie.
The network and its apologists have deflected criticism in the past, claiming good-faith errors on the part of its journalists and executives—and bad faith on the part of its critics, inevitably branded, dismissively, as “Zionists” or “the Israel Lobby.” But public opinion in Britain might be changing. The grotesque scenes in Gaza attending the release of infant Israeli hostages’ remains have caused widespread revulsion even among those who do not usually pay attention to Middle East wars.
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Chronic fatigue guidelines scrap ME exercise therapy advice
The long-awaited advice makes it clear that exercise is not a panacea for the debilitating syndrome.
The updated guidance for England and Wales recommends people judge their own "energy limit" when undertaking activity of any kind, and a physical activity programme should only be considered in specific circumstances.
It warns practitioners: "Do not advise people with ME/CFS to undertake exercise that is not part of a programme overseen by an ME/CFS specialist team, such as telling them to go to the gym or exercise more, because this may worsen their symptoms."
It also clarifies advice on a talking therapy, known as CBT, stressing that it is only helpful in treating anxiety around the condition, not the illness itself.
And it emphasises the need for early and accurate diagnosis.
Baroness Finlay, a consultant in palliative medicine and vice-chairwoman of the guideline committee, said: "Those with ME/CFS need to be listened to, understood and supported to adapt their lives. The committee members involved in this guideline have worked particularly hard to ensure care becomes more empathetic and focused on the individual's needs."
Opposing views
ME Research UK said the publication was "a significant step in both the acceptance of ME as a physical illness and recognition of appropriate treatment needs of those affected by the condition".
Sian Leary from the campaign group ME Action UK, said not publishing the guideline in August had been "devastating to thousands of people with ME", who she said had been "seriously harmed by graded exercise therapy".
Dr Charles Shepherd, medical adviser to the ME Association, said: "This new guideline will have a big impact on care for people with ME, and draws a line under the damaging therapies of the past."
Dr Alastair Miller, an NHS consultant physician in acute medicine and infectious disease in North Cumbria, said exercise programmes could be helpful: "It is unfortunate that so much emphasis is given to working 'within current energy limits' rather than a gentle and controlled pushing of those limits.
"However, it is to be welcomed that clinics will still be able to provide appropriate personalised activity and exercise programmes for those patients in whom it is felt to be appropriate."
Prof Peter White from Queen Mary University of London said: "I worry that this guideline seems to suggest that patients need to learn to live with CFS/ME, rather than be helped to recover from it.
"NICE have banned graded exercise therapy, in spite of it being found to be helpful in a major Cochrane systematic review, while recommending an energy management programme, which involves 'staying within your energy limits', for which there is little evidence for it helping, and some evidence that it doesn't."
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