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BBC bosses might as well be replaced with Muppets – they're a national embarrassment and no longer promote honesty
I SPENT decades defending the BBC.
In a world of fake news, I used to say it had the best journalists and highest standards.
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I thought it promoted Britain's values of democracy, honesty and fairness around the world. Not any more.
It has gone from the world's best broadcaster to a national embarrassment.
You might as well replace BBC bosses with the cast of the Muppet Show.
This week, it hit a new low. It had to finally admit it had paid the son of a Hamas official to star in a film about Gaza.
That broke the BBC's own rules, but Deborah Turness, the chief of BBC News, told staff there is a 'difference' between the terrorist group's political and military wings.
All of Hamas is proscribed.
You'd expect someone paid £430,000 to know this.
The BBC cannot be trusted to report on the war between Israel and Hamas.
Instead we get unbalanced coverage.
When it rushed to accuse Israel of bombing a hospital in Gaza, international editor Jeremy Bowen said it had been 'destroyed' and 'flattened'.
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The hospital hadn't been hit at all.
This is not a theoretical debate about a conflict thousands of miles away.
The BBC's coverage has a terrible impact on people in the UK.
Constantly falsely accusing Israel of committing a genocide will fuel hatred towards people who identify with Israel, which is the vast majority of Jewish people.
And look what happened at Glastonbury, as the BBC broadcast a group chanting 'Death to the IDF'.
It has been three weeks, yet no one has been held responsible.
Sack Tim Davie
What needs to change?
Start by replacing Jeremy Bowen.
Close BBC Arabic which squanders taxpayers' money on content that barely differs from Qatar's propaganda channel Al-Jazeera.
And sack BBC staff guilty of glorifying terror online.
Deborah Turness needs to go and Tim Davie should follow if he can't take swift action to clear up the mess.
It seems the only people who get it are Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Ofcom boss Dame Melanie Dawes who said the public's trust is being undermined.
Nandy has already been in to read the riot act.
She was completely right to demand changes at the top because that's the only way this can be sorted out.
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