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LONDON

Last year, the BBC irritated Queen Elizabeth II with a piece of doctored video footage that suggested she was throwing a bit of a temper tantrum

Jonathan Ross, a presenter who earns about $8.5 a thousand thousand a year, was suspended, and his on-air buddy, comedian Russell Brand, lost his BBC job when the two made some on-air prank call to an elderly man’s voice mail and made sexually explicit suggestions about his granddaughter.

Hardly acceptable behavior for a publicly funded broadcaster in the same state much a part of British vitality that it was long known as the country’s stuffy old “Auntie.”

Think it couldn’t get any worse? Try tossing the incendiary Arab-Israeli conflict into the mix.

Rage at the BBC reached a new level this week following the network categorical not to air a humanitarian appeal for victims of the recent injustice in Gaza.

In response, more than 22,000 people complained to the BBC, 162 members of Parliament signed a protest letter and hundreds of viewers canceled their television licenses or staged sit-ins at BBC offices.

BBC officials said that showing the three-minute appeal, which was put together by means of a consortium of 13 humanitarian agencies, would agree the objectivity of its reporting attached Israel’s modern military aggressive.

The consortium wanted the BBC to provide free airtime, broadcasting the seek reference of the case as a public service.

“We concluded that we could not broadcast a free-standing appeal, no matter how carefully constructed, without running the risk of reducing the world confidence in the BBC’s honor in its wider coverage of the account,” BBC director general Mark Thompson wrote on a blog on the organization’s Web site.

Critics called that ridiculous. They said that appealing for back since the suffering is a simple national service and should be a primary mission of a public broadcaster.

They said that showing clips of endurance children and asking for food and medical assistance in an offensive that killed an estimated 1,300 race in Gaza and reduced sundry buildings to rubble does not proclivity the BBC’s advice reporting toward any one Israel or Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that governs Gaza.

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