A threat to impartiality: Reconstructing and situating the BBC's denial of the 2009 DEC appeal for Gaza
A threat to impartiality: Reconstructing and situating the BBC's denial of the 2009 DEC appeal for Gaza
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DOI：
10.1177/1750635212440916
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发表时间：
2012-08-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
McCurdy, Patrick
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作者：
Engelbert, Jiska;McCurdy, Patrick
2009年1月，英国广播公司（BBC）拒绝了灾难紧急委员会（DEC）的请求，即在以色列地面进攻“铸铅”之后广播紧急呼吁，以减轻加沙的人类痛苦。这一决定标志着两个组织之间40多年的关系中，BBC首次拒绝了一项请求，但上诉仍在继续。BBC高管认为，播出这一呼吁可能会威胁到公众对BBC公正性的信心。本文，描述性和探索性的范围内，首先重建了这个“公正性的争论”的年表，提供了一个详细的概述的关键球员，他们之间的（历史）关系，并运行和英国广播公司的决定后。文章的第二部分分析了英国广播公司拒绝DEC的要求，并探讨了英国广播公司对公正性的关注如何表达其新的“马车轮”的公正性方法。最后，作者研究了英国广播公司的决定和重新点燃的公正性的背景下，英国广播公司越来越受到其品牌的性质和中东冲突的可见性。
In January 2009, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) denied a request from the Disaster's Emergency Committee (DEC) to broadcast an emergency appeal to relieve human suffering in Gaza in the wake of the Israeli ground offensive 'Cast Lead'. The decision marked the first time in the over 40-year relationship between the two organisations that a request was refused by the BBC, but an appeal went ahead. BBC Executives argued that airing the appeal could pose a threat to public confidence in the BBC's impartiality. This article, both descriptive and exploratory in scope, first reconstructs a chronology of this 'impartiality argument', providing a detailed overview of the key players, the (historical) relationship between them, and the run-up to and aftermath of the BBC's decision. The second part of the article analyses the BBC's denial of the DEC request and explores how the BBC's concerns over impartiality articulate its new 'wagon wheel' approach to impartiality. Finally, the authors study the BBC's decision and the - rekindled - centrality of impartiality within the context of the BBC being increasingly bound by the nature of its brand and the visibility of the Middle East conflict.