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The Times provides an interesting twist on a posting I made lask week relating to the BBC’s impartiality when covering the Iraq war. BBC Director General Greg Dyke had insisted, in a speech made at Goldsmiths’ College, that when reporting from Baghdad Rageh Omaar was in no way influenced by the Iraqi regime and, from what he said, it would appear that the correspondent often had the upper hand:

…the ineffectiveness of the minders was illustrated when Rageh’s minder asked Rageh if he could take the following day off so he could spend it with his family.

I don’t doubt that’s true, but did he really need to write such creepy notes to the Iraqi Ministry of Information?

After one trip he wrote that the high point had been a dinner with Mr al-Taie: “After promising and promising to have dinner with you for such a long time

If you liked that post, then try these...

The Bourne Supremacy on August 28th, 2004

Censorship on April 15th, 2006

Ronnie Hazlehurst and Ned Sherrin on October 2nd, 2007

The Life of Zamenhof on June 16th, 2006

On Foot to the End of the World on July 3rd, 2006

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