In a landmark departure from normal practice, the BBC has produced and aired a documentary on Turkey’s action on board the Mavi Marara earlier this summer. What is remarkable about this “Panorama” current-affairs programme is that the documentary, presented by Jane Corbin, gives an objective, neutral and factual presentation of views from both sides. And […]
Monthly archives: August 2010
Swedish journalism: a graveyard for ethics and morals
Genocide takes many forms. There is the physical butchery that takes the lives of innocents because they are of the wrong religion, nationality, skin colour, or whatever else it takes for primitive human beings to justify their unjustifiable hatred. Then there are the cowards. The people who under no circumstances will get their hands dirty […]
That selective silence – again
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is not so much a political enigma, more a walking human rights tragedy and as such, a downright insult to democrats everywhere. On the subject of Sudan’s despot Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is wanted by Interpol to face charges of genocide, Carl Bildt is strangely apathetic. In fact, he is […]
When does interest become obsession?
When does reporting the news slip seamlessly into manufacturing the news? And when does a constant barrage of negative publicity on the world’s sole Jewish nation – accompanied by the total exclusion of reporting on major news in surrounding Muslim nations – achieve official recognition as a political campaign? A state-funded political campaign, at that. […]