‘Heads will roll’: BBC reckons with bias accusations over Israel and Palestine coverage
As controversy still swirls over Gaza documentaries, corporation braces for further criticism from all sides, including inside
When the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, held a virtual town hall meeting with staff this month, most assumed it would be dominated by disputes over pay and redundancies.
When the questions came in, however, the top query to the boss was clear: why was the corporation refusing to show a long-awaited documentary about medics in Gaza?
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