![]() ![]() Over the last two days, most British newspapers have mentioned the BBC governors’ sanctioning of Plett in only a very brief way. (Plett, like her colleague Orla Guerin, has for years been subject to complaints by BBC viewers and listeners about “severe anti-Israel bias in her reports”.) The governors have now ruled that Plett’s comments “breached the requirements of due impartiality”.īBC NEWS: PLETT’S REPORTING WAS “FAIR, ACCURATE AND BALANCED”įollowing initial complaints about Plett’s report last year, BBC News issued a statement saying Plett’s reporting had met the high standards of “fairness, accuracy and balance” expected of a BBC correspondent. Plett was initially cleared by the BBC head of editorial complaints but a persistent listener took the matter to appeal. Hundreds of listeners complained about Plett. It is unusual for BBC governors to side with listeners and viewers over their own BBC news department. On Friday, after almost a year considering the matter, the BBC governors upheld a complaint by listeners against BBC News over Plett’s BBC Radio Four “From Our Own Correspondent” report in October 2004. She is now BBC correspondent in Islamabad, Pakistan. Until earlier this year, Plett was one of the BBC’s chief correspondents in Jerusalem. ![]() The BBC's Central America correspondent Will Grant has been trying to keep ahead of a wave of affluent foreigners - especially US citizens - moving in, but recently his young daughters' nursery has been priced out of the neighbourhood.The BBC’s Board of Governors has criticized BBC news chiefs for not sanctioning BBC Jerusalem correspondent Barbara Plett, after she said on air that she “started to cry” when Yasser Arafat left the West Bank shortly before his death to receive medical treatment in Paris. Sofia Bettiza saw how people are adapting to the soaring temperatures on the streets of Palermo, in Sicily - and heard about concerns for Italians' health in this heat.Īnd from Mexico City, an unexpected casualty of gentrification. ![]() Much of Southern Europe is baking - if not burning - in a searing heatwave. And as Mike Thomson experienced on a recent trip, the media are still under VERY close supervision. President Kais Saied is on an increasingly authoritarian tear, the economy's sputtering and the country's treatment of sub-Saharan African migrants has been growing ever harsher. Tunisia may have been the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring, but these days its democratic credentials seem corroded. Each major blocs has questioned the other's alliances - whether with smaller parties from the far right, or others from the Basque-nationalist movement. In this weekend's snap general election in Spain, current Socialist PM Pedro Sanchez tests his mandate against growing pressure from the right - not just the traditional conservatives of the Partido Popular, but also a range of more firmly nationalist parties. Barbara Plett Usher has been working to cover the violence from Nairobi, in Kenya, and reflects on what it's been possible to confirm. Sudan's newest civil war has been raging for more than three months - but first-hand images and reports of conflict are not easy to find. Kate Adie introduces BBC correspondents' reports from Sudan, Spain, Tunisia, Italy and Mexico. ![]()
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