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Post by marky on Feb 23, 2011 15:42:43 GMT
Name: Chris Patten BBC Position: Chairman of the BBC Trust "A former chairman of the Conservative party, he has got the vital backing from David Cameron to take over from Sir Michael Lyons as head of the BBC Trust. The appointment comes at a highly sensitive time for the corporation and will mark a return of a Tory to the top of the BBC after successive chairmen who were deemed close to Labour." Telegraph
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Post by marky on Feb 23, 2011 15:46:08 GMT
Just the right sort of 'Tory' for the BBC. As a poster on Biased BBC blog wrote... "La Cumparsita If Lord Patten is appointed Chairman of the BBC Trust, it'll get even worse. He has been a longstanding outspoken critic of Israel and is currently President of Medical Aid for Palestinians, an organisation, by its own admission, engaged in political “advocacy work" in support of the Palestinian cause. www.map-uk.org/regions/uk/ During his time as EU Commissioner for External Affairs, Patten lobbied against an investigation into claims by the US, German, Israeli and other governments, as well as Human Rights Watch, that EU funding was being stolen and/or misused to fund terrorist activities by the Palestinian Authority, during the worst period of Palestinian terrorist violence in 2002/3 2-4. www.hrw.org/node/77214/section/7 More recently Lord Patten demonstrated his clear ideological slant in a Financial Times op-ed, 29 July, 2010.Using pejorative language, he described all Israeli (including historic Jewish) areas east of the 1949 Armistice Line as “colonies”. He stated that Palestinians are being “squeezed out of Jerusalem” despite authoritative evidence to the contrary (Kimhi I., Arab Building in Jerusalem 1967 – 1997. Camera Monograph Series, Boston 1997.). He expressed outrage over Israel’s security barrier, which he described as a “wall” (95% of the barrier is a 3m high fence). However, he omitted any mention of the terrorism which led to the barrier's construction, and which the barrier has been largely successful in preventing. Regarding Gaza, Patten described Israeli sanctions against the Hamas enclave as a "blockade" and, "collective punishment... simply because they [Palestinians] have a Hamas administration." In fact the sanctions were not placed following the election of Hamas but a year later, in 2007, following Hamas’ violent coup, rocket fire on Israeli towns and the killing and kidnapping of Israeli soldiers in a cross border attack. According to him Israel alone, is to blame for the conflict and the impasse in finding a just solution. Patten's actions reflect a partisan political position which should preclude him from the office of Chairman of the BBC Trust - but it won't." Link
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Post by Teddy Bear on Feb 23, 2011 17:10:09 GMT
There's even more to make him a BBC man through and through, as I remarked here.
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Post by marky on Feb 24, 2011 22:34:46 GMT
Good posts Mate.
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