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    Posted by Mary on July 13, 2019, 6:32 pm

    Thought I would put up a link to some who feature in the BBC Who's Who.

    Amol Rajan is the voluble BBC Media Editor, always appearing and giving his take on events. He was one time editor of Levedev's Independent and was at the FCO early on for a year.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38054561

    James Harding was the Head of News. He arrived at the BBC along with James Purnell, one time chair of LFoI and ex Labour MP, and Ceri Thomas.

    Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC
    23 April 2013 https://electronicintifada.net/content/apologists-israel-take-top-posts-bbc/12395

    Hall was a successor to Mark Thompson, the DG, who presided over the Savile evil. Thompson is married to Jane Blumberg, daughter of a US physicist. Thompson visited Sharon in Israel in 2005 to reassure him that BBC reports on Israel were fair! It was originally said he was accompanied by his wife but the BBC would not confirm that.

    See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(media_executive)#Accusations_of_pro-Israeli_editorial_stance

    Under Thompson's watch, the DEC appeal for Gaza after the Cast Lead slaughter was not aired by the BBC. Caroline Thomson, no longer at the BBC, was his sidekick who also took a decision not to broadcast Caryl Churchill's 'Seven Jewish Children', a radio play.

    Thompson is now CEO at the New York Times. At the BBC in 2010 he was being paid just under £1m.

    Ms Thomson is now the chair of OXFAM. (YCNMIU)

    Harding left the BBC and set up his own media outfit called Turquoise.

    Purnell is still at the BBC as Head of Radio, Head of Strategy and Digital. Before, he had worked privately for Blair, was a SPAD at No 10 and was given two jobs (DCMS and Pensions) by Brown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purnell

    Lastly, Lizzi Watson, Margaret Hodge's daughter from her first marriage, is currently the Deputy Editor for BBC News at Six and News at Ten, ie the country's main news provider. As you know, Hodge (MP Lab Barking) has been instigating the anti-Semitism smears against Jeremy Corbyn.
    https://twitter.com/islingtonlizzi?lang=en
    Does the anti-Corbyn bias that we see and hear get passed down the line?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hodge

    All in all, 'Bought by and Sold to Israel' and Paid For by the licence fee payers. Just some of the stuff that is in the public domain. There is probably much more that we will never know about.

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