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Yarden talks with HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker as the BBC comes under fire from anti-Israel activists, including journalists, for producing a documentary that actually treated Israel fairly.

Videos and articles discussed in this podcast:

BBC Panorama Shocker: Balanced Review of Gaza Flotilla Incident

The Hamas Defence League Takes On Panorama

Senior NUJ Activists plan BBC protest against journalistic freedom

BBC: Denying Jewish Jerusalem

Ken O’Keefe: An open letter to BBC Panorama’s Jane Corbin

Death in the Med: Panorama’s response

YouTube - Protest against BBC Panorama

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In honor of HonestReporting’s 10th anniversary, Yarden and Pesach discuss the biggest cases of media bias from the past decade and why it’s important to keep the media honest.

Articles/Videos discussed in this podcast:

Al Dura - What Really Happened?

The Big Jenin Lie

Israel faces rage over ‘massacre’

Jenin ‘massacre evidence growing‘

Outrage: IDF Accused of “Harvesting Palestinian Organs”

UN site posts organ harvesting claim

The photo that started it all

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Do photos reveal the truth or distort reality? Watch our new video to see how newspapers use images to promote their own narrative about the Middle East conflict.

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Yarden and Pesach discuss a Huffington Post article outlining the reasons progressives should back Israel in the conflict with the Palestinians. See the article at http://huff.to/krinskyisrael

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In this video, Yarden and Pesach discuss a Huffington Post article outlining the reasons progressives should back Israel in the conflict with the Palestinians. See the article at http://huff.to/krinskyisrael

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Yarden and Pesach debate CNN’s decision to fire its Senior Editor over a tweet expressing respect for Hezbollah’s spiritual leader. Check out http://bit.ly/nasrcnn for more information.

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Does publishing an op-ed by a known terrorist violate US law? Yarden and Pesach discuss a recent court ruling and what it might mean for the media.

Articles discussed in the podcast:

Pesach’s Backspin blog post on the issue. http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2010/06/oped-soapbox-for-terror-is-illegal-too.html

LA Times 2009 op-ed by senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook. http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/06/opinion/oe-marzook6

Learn more about the issue at: http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Attorney_NY_Times_and_Washington_Post_Legally_Complicit_in_Terror.asp

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In this podcast we interviewed a few participants in the May 2010 HonestReporting Leadership Mission to Israel on their experiences in the program.

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If there is a “humanitarian” crisis, why is the flotilla’s cargo rotting on the pier?

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Yarden and Pesach tell Helen Thomas to get the hell out of journalism.

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