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> BBC bans news stars from anti-war march
> Jason Deans
> Tuesday February 11 2003
> The Guardian
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> Senior BBC news presenters such as Huw Edwards and Fiona Bruce and
journalists including Andrew Marr have been ordered by bosses to stay away
from Saturday's anti-war march in London.
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> The BBC deputy director of news, Mark Damazer, yesterday sent an email to
newsroom staff listing which categories of journalist should not attend the
march and rally in Hyde Park.
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> These include all presenters, correspondents, editors, output editors and
"anyone who can be considered a 'gatekeeper' of our output".
>
> Mr Damazer said he was allowing more junior staff to attend the march but
only in a "private capacity with no suggestion that he or she speaks for the
BBC".
>
> The BBC director general, Greg Dyke, has also reminded staff they should
remember their duty to be "independent, impartial and honest" in the coming
weeks as a possible war with Iraq looms.
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> "There is a need to balance a respect for civil liberties with the BBC's
need to be impartial," a BBC spokeswoman said.
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> "The view taken by the BBC about this weekend's peace march is that senior
editorial decision makers and people who present the BBC's news programmes
should not attend the march," she added.
>
> In putting out this advice on the anti-war march, BBC executives will be
mindful its journalists regularly come in for criticism from the rightwing
press for alleged bias in their political coverage.
>
> The former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Rod Liddle, was forced
to resign last September after the Daily Telegraph accused him of "blatant
bias" because he did not report the Countryside Alliance's march in the
show's 8am bulletin the following Monday.
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> The Telegraph also complained that Liddle wrote in his Guardian column
that the Countryside Alliance march reminded people why they voted Labour in
1997.
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> Liddle was given the choice by the BBC of giving up his Guardian column or
his Today job and chose the latter.
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> Following the incident, in November BBC editors were forbidden from
writing newspaper columns.
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> In contrast to the BBC's attempts to ensure its coverage of the build up
to war with Iraq is impartial, most national newspapers have very clearly
taken sides in the debate.
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> The Daily Mirror and its editor, Piers Morgan, have come out very strongly
against war, while the new Sun editor, Rebekah Wade, has kept with her
predecessor David Yelland's fierce pro-war stance.
>
> Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited
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