{"id":6129,"date":"2009-01-23T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2009-01-27T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T16:06:58","slug":"complain-to-bbc-re-gaza-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6129","title":{"rendered":"Complain to BBC re Gaza appeal | RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: THE BBC REFUSES TO BROADCAST GAZA CHARITY APPEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arab Media Watch
\n23 January 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Please complain to the BBC\u00a0for blocking free prime-time TV airtime for a nationwide appeal for money to help “the desperate plight” of the people of\u00a0Gaza. The appeal is\u00a0from the Disasters Emergency Committee –\u00a0made up of the 13 biggest aid charities, including the British Red Cross, Save the Children, Oxfam and Christian Aid – which said that “the devastation wrought in the Gazan territory was so huge that British aid agencies were compelled to act.”<\/p>\n

“The broadcast would have highlighted the plight of thousands of victims, including many children, who are homeless and without food, power and water,” wrote social affairs correspondent Rosemary Bennett and Patrick Foster in the Times<\/em><\/a>. “By convention, if all broadcasters do not agree to carry the appeal, none does.”<\/p>\n

The BBC’s decision will leave aid agencies with “a potential shortfall of millions of pounds in donations,” wrote Jenny Percival in the Guardian<\/em><\/a>, who described it as “a rare breach of an agreement dating to 1963.”<\/p>\n

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Update<\/em>:
\nRAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: THE BBC REFUSES TO BROADCAST GAZA CHARITY APPEAL<\/a><\/p>\n

Update<\/em>:
\nThis is the Gaza aid appeal the BBC and SKY refused to air<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arab Media Watch 23 January 2009 Please complain to the BBC\u00a0for blocking free prime-time TV airtime for a nationwide appeal for money to help “the desperate plight” of the people of\u00a0Gaza. The appeal is\u00a0from the Disasters Emergency Committee –\u00a0made up … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1AR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6203,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}