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News from Media Workers Against the War The BBC is still seething in response to it’s director general Mark Thompson’s decision not to broadcast the Gaza aid appeal. At least three BBC NUJ workplace branches have passed motions calling on the BBC to transmit the Gaza aid appeal. A petition is circulating within the corporation…

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The BBC is adamant it is boycotting the humanitarian appeal for Gaza from the Disasters Emergency Committee. Boycott the BBC – this ‘news’ channel needs all of us more than we need them – they need us to continue to pay our license fees and to cooperate with them in their news programmes. Sign the…

Actor Tam Dean Burn on why the BBC has it all wrong on the Gaza appealThe Sunday Herald, 1 February 2009 TO QUOTE the late Harry Horse in his cartoon in the Sunday Herald almost exactly three years ago: “Now that Orwell is beamed nightly into our democratic living rooms” (January 15, 2006). Rarely can…

Open Letter to the BBC from Tam Dean Burn, 26 January 2009 Mark Thompson Director general of the BBC   Dear Mark Thompson We, the undersigned actors and directors, like millions of others, are absolutely appalled at the decision by the BBC to refuse to broadcast the DEC appeal for Gaza. We therefore are taking…