Des Freedman
@lazebnic
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Goldsmiths Media & UCU - lives in the Estuary - likes writing manifestoes - founding member @mediareformuk
Joined July 2009
Vindicated & reinstated. 115 days later and thanks to amazing solidarity from around the world, Goldsmiths has confirmed that there is "no case to answer" against me & @gkhiabany for doing our job & supporting our students. Off to the pub now. .
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Unbelievable that the CEO of @BBCNews is now willing to consider showing the previously pulled Gaza documentary "in short form". Laura Kuenssberg was found guilty of breaches of both accuracy & impartiality and she's definitely there in full form every Sunday morning.
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Headline should really be 'BBC Gaza doc did not breach impartiality guidelines'. The report states that it didn't find 'any issues with the accuracy, fairness, or due impartiality of the reporting in the Programme.' Will the BBC restore it to iPlayer?
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"Have you any evidence UK has provided targeting to Israel?" asks BBC defence correspondent @bealejonathan. Once again, that's the point: why has no mainstream news source actually used their resources & influence to find out whether this is true? But they haven't bothered. .
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The BBC's defence correspondent, @bealejonathan, has just tweeted that I just "googled BBC,RAF & Gaza" for my @declassifiedUK story on non-coverage of spy flights. Ummm no: I did extensive search of Nexis database using different keywords and I didn't find a single investigation.
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You can hardly call it an “error” or a “malfunction” when your forces are pounding unarmed civilians and have killed at least 95 people in Gaza today according to @AJEnglish. You don’t think that’s a massacre?
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However, in a remarkable display of impartiality, the X feed of @BBCWorld has referred once each in 2025 to allegations of 'genocidal acts' (in quote marks of course) carried out by Israel and to a 'genocidal strategy' pursued by Hamas. But 0 mentions of genocide itself 2/2
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'Is that it?' asks @MailOnline in response to Starmer's attempt to win some Reform votes. The thing about pandering to right-wing media is that they're never going to be happy & all you've done is to further poison the debate on immigration.
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“May I ask you to seek my advice”! that’s how government/media relations work when it comes to defence policy. Extremely important context here for the non-coverage of the MoD’s spy flights over Gaza in my @declassifiedUK story.
BREAKING: I publish here for 1st time the 'D-Notice' censorship instruction sent out to media editors by the UK military after it leaked that the SAS had deployed to Cyprus for Gaza ops in Oct 2023. There's been zero information in UK media about SAS and Gaza since it was issued
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“…that would be the sort of facility, a safe facility, where aid workers would then be able to operate?” It is unbelievable just how detached the BBC are from UK public opinion 3/3
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This is his full question to the Palestinian Authority’s UN representative: “Is there not an argument for saying that if you have people in a camp, which the Israelis says they will have already screened people to make sure that none of them have been involved in Hamas…” 2/3.
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I mean this headline is bad enough - just “moving” an entire population without mentioning this as a war crime - but the BBC presenter on its flagship 10pm radio news has just posed this in an interview as potentially “a safe facility” for aid workers 1/2
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Minutes of the latest D-Notice Committee (which can "ask" news outlets not to run a story) refer to discussion about "other UK operations & deployed force elements". Would be interesting to know whether the spy flights have been discussed but then no journalist wants to tell us
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Delighted to see my story on UK media's silence on MoD spy flights over Gaza (and their failure to investigate the intelligence gathered) published by @ScotNational & @declassifiedUK
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Sharp analysis from @rgizbert1 in latest @AJListeningPost about BBC bias and government collusion following Glastonbury furore & witch hunt of pro Palestine voices. Apologies that I’m in it
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Valuable lessons on how to fight university job cuts and huge credit to everyone at @NewcastleUcu
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Thorough investigation by the @FT accounting editor @stephenfoley on “Project Aurora”, Boston Consulting Group’s secret plan to ethnically cleanse #Gaza at a cost of $5bn. They even worked out the value of a Palestinian life: $$9000…
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This is extraordinary. The BBC investigated 7 acts ahead of #Glastonbury2025 in case they were "high risk". I wonder if the Corporation conducts this level of scrutiny on Israeli government or military spokespeople in case they make genocidal statements
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