Promoting PLO narrative in copious coverage of prisoners’ strike at BBC News - by Hadar Sela

...There is of course nothing novel about BBC compliance with the PLO’s ‘advice’ to the media. However, the repeated promotion of the narrative according to which convicted terrorists are ‘political prisoners’ in this over-generously covered story obviously calls BBC impartiality into question.

Hadar Sela..
BBC Watch..
20 April '17..

Since the commencement on April 17th of a hunger strike by some of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons led by Marwan Barghouti, the BBC News website’s Middle East page has published no fewer than three reports on the subject.

April 17th: “Palestinians in Israeli jails hold mass hunger strike”

April 18th: “Israel rules out talks with Palestinian hunger striking inmates“

April 19th: “Palestinian anger at Israeli refusal to talk to hunger striking inmates“

However, in that remarkable display of conscription to the cause of publicising that story, the BBC has refrained from providing its audiences with background information crucial to their understanding of the topic.

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