The official report for the governors of the BBC found evidence of a pro-Israel bias. Martin Walker begs to differ:

This produced mocking guffaws in my own newsroom, where some of the BBC’s greatest hits — or perhaps misses — remain fresh in the memory. There was the hagiographic send-off for Yassir Arafat by a BBC reporter with tears in her eyes and that half-hour profile of Arafat in 2002 which called him a “hero” and “an icon” and concluded that the corrupt old brute was “the stuff of legends”.

“Mocking guffaws” — also an appropriate response to claims that the U.S. media are pro-Bush.