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Following on from the 2008 film, ‘A Year in Tibet’, which was a shameful distortion of life inside Tibet http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/bbc-whitewashes-tibet.html the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has again found itself in hot-water, this time as a result of permitting a pro-Chinese perspective on Tibet to dominate a feature on its Radio Four’s flagship ‘Today’ program.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/29/bbc-trust-tibet-radio-4-today
The show promoted a highly selective and sympathetic view towards Chinese rule in Tibet, during March 2008, generating a number of complaints, which have been upheld by the BBC Trust. Rather like their colleagues in the British Foreign Office, in respect to Tibet the BBC appears to be sensitive towards communist China and happy to conceal the facts about the ongoing oppression and violations inside Tibet and East Turkestan.
