Syrian journalist Dima Izzedin, who has been with the BBC
for eight years, said her decision was based on the media outlet’s stance
towards her home country.
“Today I was supposed to go back to the BBC screen after
an absence of a year but I will no longer go back,” she wrote on
Facebook, according to the New
Arab news site.
“The standards adopted by this great institution are
supposed to make it first class in media, but this is not the case,” she
added.
Izzedin said she was grateful for her experiences, but
questioned the broadcaster’s standards for impartiality.
“Unfortunately, these standards are no longer applied as
it should be .... today I leave it [the BBC], as it is no longer like me nor am
I like it. The news on my wounded homeland departed us.”
Supporters of Syrian rebels have accused the media
organization of sympathetic language towards President Bashar Assad’s
government.
They accused Damascus-based BBC Arabic Syria correspondent
Assaf Aboud of “propaganda” for reporting from the capital and
of not being able to report truthfully or impartially under the control of
Assad, the New Arab reported.
The BBC has been accused of biased coverage on the
Israel-Palestine conflict from both sides of the spectrum. Michael Grade,
former chairman of the broadcaster claimed that the BBC “directly
misled” viewers on a report about stabbing attacks on Israelis by
allegedly failing to show Palestinian groups praising the attacks last year.
On the other side, pro-Palestine groups and the late Labour
politician Tony Benn criticized the BBC for violating its principles by
refusing to broadcast a humanitarian appeal for Gaza following the late 2008
war.
No comments:
Post a Comment