Emily Bell: Mark Thompson has made an editorial decision. It is not the place of government to deem whether it is right or wrong

Mark Thompson has made an editorial decision. It is not the government's place to deem whether it is right or wrong In deciding not to carry the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, BBC director general Mark Thompson again dragged the corporation into the white hot glare of public and governmental disapproval. But if Mark Thompson is wrong, and many think he is

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Jan. 26/’it doesn't reflect the reality that the BBC has in the past both reported crises brought about by political conflict and then hosted appeals for the victims on its channel. The DEC appeal for the victims of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo being a case in point.’