Extract from Commons Urgent Question on BBC: Dyson Report: Israel - May 24
Tuesday, 25 May 2021 07:45
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry) (DUP) [V]: Some have sought
to defend the BBC by saying that the disgraceful Martin Bashir
incident was 25 years ago, and indeed it was. However, since 1995,
we have had the Jimmy Savile cover-up; the disgraceful incident
regarding the surveillance of the search of the Cliff Richard home;
the political partisanship of Emily Maitlis on “Newsnight”; and
recently—in the past week or so—we heard about a BBC Palestinian
expert on the BBC who, before...Request free trial
(East Londonderry) (DUP) [V]: Some have
sought to defend the BBC by saying that the disgraceful Martin
Bashir incident was 25 years ago, and indeed it was. However, since
1995, we have had the Jimmy Savile cover-up; the disgraceful
incident regarding the surveillance of the search of the Cliff
Richard home; the political partisanship of Emily Maitlis on
“Newsnight”; and recently—in the past week or so—we heard about a
BBC Palestinian expert on the BBC who, before she was employed by
the BBC, tweeted that Israel is more Nazi than Hitler.
The mid-term review surely offers the opportunity for radical,
fundamental change at the BBC.
The Minister for Media and Data (
): I can tell the hon. Gentleman that
a lot of the incidents he mentioned took place before the new
governance arrangements were in place, but we obviously need to
consider whether there are lessons to be learned from those
incidents for our mid-term review. If that journalist’s tweets
regarding Israel and Palestine are shown to
be genuine, it is my view that anybody who can express such
opinions should not be employed by the BBC.
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