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Source: http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/69063/bbc-apologises-over-itamar-massacres-coverage
BBC Apologizes over Itamar Massacre Coverage
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Jessica Elgot - The BBC "got it wrong" by not giving prominence to the massacre of the Fogel family by Palestinians in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, outgoing director-general Mark Thompson admitted on Tuesday. "We made a mistake in this instance," he said. Conservative MP Louise Mensch, who quizzed Thompson at a committee hearing, said the BBC's decision not to include the story as part of its rolling news coverage generated "the most reaction I have ever had in all my time in politics....There was a feeling the BBC just didn't care and that, if a settler had entered the home of a Palestinian family, slit the throat of their children, that the BBC would have covered that."