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...over mismanaged phone-in competitions and red faces after footage of the Queen was wrongly edited to suggest she had stormed out of a photo shoot. Yet all of these controversies pale in comparison to the storms of anger now battering the BBC over its refusal to show an appeal for humanitarian aid for the people of war-ravaged Gaza...
Despite more than 1,000 phone calls, 11,000 e-mails of complaint and a series of protests outside its London and regional headquarters, the broadcaster has dug in its heels against pressure to run the filmed appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), a nonaligned umbrella organization representing 13 long-established charities such as the British Red Cross, Christian Aid and Oxfam. Defending the decision on one of the BBC's own morning news shows today, BBC director general Mark Thompson said, "We are passionate about our impartiality ... We worry about being seen to endorse something that could give...
...Could an appeal for emergency aid for Gazans living in extreme hardship following the Israeli military campaign be construed as an attack on that campaign? Thompson and his lieutenants fear so. Ben Bradshaw, a former BBC newsman who is now Health Minister, called the reasoning "completely feeble." MPs are queuing to sign a motion brought by Richard Burden, a Labour MP, expressing "astonishment" at the rebuff. "It completely baffles me," Burden said. "Do I think impartiality is important? Of course I do. But to be honest, what the BBC is doing is undermining its reputation for impartiality rather than bolstering...
...take a r?sum? and a pretty face from New York City and say to people, This is good for you, simply because we can spend a lot of money and raise a lot of money." - Former U.S. Representative John Sweeney, whom Gillibrand unseated in 2006, dismissing her appeal during their contentious campaign, in the Troy Record...
...notion of a bailout for Main Street didn't have enough hurdles to overcome, Obama may also need to ask for upwards of $50 billion more for the already approved bank bailout to deal with the continuing credit crunch. Considering that nine Democrats disregarded Obama's personal appeal last week and voted against giving his new Administration the second half of the $700 billion allocated by Congress in September, adding $50 billion more to the stimulus could poison the well for Dems adamantly opposed to further aid for Wall Street...