It appears that Gordon Brown has committed an additional £15m a year of taxpayers moeny to fund a BBC Farsi channel which will output television in Iran. Whilst there may be very good foreign policy reasons for a western media source broadcasting into Iran, you have to wonder what the output will actually be like.
The BBC World Service Director Nigel Chapman has made it clear that the channel will be "editorially independent", and he alos that the BBC "provide impartial news and information about the wider world and the crucial part Iran is playing on the regional and global stage."
"Crucial part"? Is that BBC impartiality for "playing deliberately provocative brinkmanship with nuclear technology, and having a stated policy of wiping the Israeli nation off the face of the planet"?
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