Well done Jonathan Dimbleby
"Jonathan Dimbleby has called the Royal Television Society “cowards” for dropping an award recognising journalists working in Gaza in response to controversy over a BBC documentary."
"The decision to drop the award has angered UK Screen Industry, a group of concerned TV and film professionals, who argue that the Gaza film had nothing to do with journalists working in the region"
"Dimbleby, 80, has demanded that the RTS explain its reasoning. He said: “The decision is craven and the grounds on which it has been made — the fact that there is an issue around one BBC film — are specious and shallow. No journalist working in Gaza was involved in the making of that film.”
"At least 171 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel and Lebanon since the war began on 7 October 2023, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists."
A prize for journalists in Gaza has been dropped after the BBC pulled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone from iPlayer over Hamas links
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Israel is once again getting their own way with everything, at seemingly any expense to anything - they long ago banned international journalists from entering Gaza, they purposely murder journalists there, and anything that comes out they either suppress (like with the BBC documentary) or make sure it's barely reported on (No Other Land). And now even this.
Brave journalists who should be greatly rewarded are now being punished because israel continues to suppress the truth
So well done to the good people who continue to speak up