The BBC’s Middle East editor on why he doesn’t use the word ‘terrorist’ to describe people who do this:
Most Palestinians regard violence directed against Israel as legitimate resistance. Most Israelis regard it as terrorism.
If the BBC backed either definition we would no longer be impartial.
The BBC’s Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, Q&A: Your Gaza questions answered
Perhaps Bowen should read his own employer’s most recent research:
it cannot be assumed that all criticisms have equal validity…
Impartiality … It is not necessarily to be found on the centre ground … The centre is often the wrong place to be…programme-makers who favour the centre can be just as partial as if they were out on a wing.
An open-minded search for completeness does not entail equal space for every shade of argument or attitude
From the BBC’s own report, ‘BBC Trust’ From Seesaw to Wagon Wheel Safeguarding impartiality in the 21st century
Or listen to Andrew Marr:
The BBC is a publicly-funded urban organisation with an abnormally large proportion of younger people, of people in ethnic minorities and almost certainly of gay people, compared with the population at large…[this] creates an innate liberal bias inside the BBC
Andrew Marr,
Does the BBC have a bias problem?
