Question Time
Posted by scrabb
on November 3, 2023, 3:53 pm
I've been mulling over all morning whether it's worth sending a complaint to the BBC's Points of View about last night's Question Time. One of the panellists was Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. The BBC claims, indeed boasts, that it strives to be impartial in its news and current affairs programmes and aims for "balance" between opposing views. van der Zyl was obviously there to voice the Jewish point of view in relation to the "war" between Israel and Hamas, no problem with that. But who on the panel was representing the Palestinian viewpoint? There was a Labour MP, a tory MP, a journalist for the Financial Times and the founder of a high-tech company. A woman in the audience spoke up for the Palestinians but there was no "official" spokesperson for them. It struck me quite forcibly that if there HAD been a Palestinian spokesperson on the panel and no one representing the Jewish community, all hell would have ensued. There would have been howls of outrage and accusations of bias and anti-Semitism. Yet no one seemed concerned that the Palestinians were not represented. Is it worth my while to put this to Points of View do you think? Or a bleeding waste of time and effort?
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Responses
- Do it. - Fionn November 3, 2023, 6:52 pm
- Worth a shot IMO, if only to stop it playing on your mind! (nm) - Ian M November 3, 2023, 7:11 pm
- PS - Ian M November 3, 2023, 9:49 pm
- Re: PS - scrabb November 4, 2023, 2:05 pm
- Just do copy n paste of that post you've written here with slight editing. - Der November 3, 2023, 11:32 pm
- Who elected Zyl? - Keith-264 November 4, 2023, 12:18 am
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