BBC apologizes for paralleling Mughniyeh and Hariri
Media • February 2008 • Views: 305
In an uncommon act of journalistic contrition, the BBC has apologized for equating former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh as “great national leaders.”
Lebanese security forces examine the wreckage from the explosion that killed Rafik Hariri in 2005.
The BBC took the unusual step after Don Mell, The Associated Press’s former photographer in Beirut, lambasted the parallel, drawn by BBC correspondent Humphrey Hawkesley in a BBC World report last Thursday, as “an outrage” and “beyond belief.”