No appeal for Gaza

[steepholm]

WTF? Since when was it considered partisan to help the civilian victims of a conflict? Does this mean there will never be any appeals on the BBC (or others in the UK - but apparently the Beeb called the shots) for the victims of the Congo, Darfur, etc etc? Or is the idea that the Disasters Emergency Committee is some kind of cat's paw for Hamas? Or what?

Can anybody read this story in a way that makes any kind of non-sickening sense?

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[lamentables.livejournal.com]

This has been bothering me since I read your post - nothing about it anywhere else that I've seen. But it was reported on R3 news this morning...

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Now it seems that even the government is calling on the BBC to reconsider. It's come to a pretty pass when I hear a government minister criticize the BBC and find myself saying "Too right!"

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought. I had to check with abrinsky that I'd heard aright.