© (Ashraf Amra / APA images) BBC has shown deference to Israeli government line in its reporting on Gaza in recent days.
The panel, chaired by Sir Quentin Thomas, a senior figure in the British Home Office, found "identifiable shortcomings, particularly in respect of gaps in coverage, analysis, context and perspective and in the consistent maintenance of the BBC's own editorial standards."
The Thomas Report, as it became known, was quickly shoved under the carpet by the BBC, even though it had originally been commissioned by the corporation's own governors, and business continued as usual ("Report of the Independent Panel for the BBC Governors on Impartiality of BBC Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," April 2006, available on the Internet Archive).
In the last few days, the shortcomings highlighted in the report have never seemed so glaring.
Comment: From dictionary.com: Interesting choice of words from a psychopathic regime.
Interesting too the language used by the Israeli media to report an aggression on the oppressed ("terrorists", "terror targets").