George Galloway - favourite whipping boy of the western media - has been criticised for being biased against Israel with his broadcasts during Israel's war on Gaza in January.
UK regulator Ofcom said the "overwhelming majority of content of the programmes were from a pro-Palestinian point of view and were highly critical of Israeli policy".
Given the overwhelming pro-Israel bias of most of the rest of the UK media at the time Press TV should be applauded for adding some balance to the mix, not castigated.
As an example of the bias Galloway supposedly displayed on Press TV's The Real Deal comment show Ofcom drew attention to his remarks that Gaza was a "killing zone", an area of "mass murder", and his references to the "ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people from Southern Palestine into Gaza".
Now that all sounds like fair and reasonable comment to me but if you lived in a country that banned a humanitarian appeal for suffering people in Gaza because it was 'political', nothing surprises any more. Press TV is funded by the Iranian government.
More at the Guardian
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