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[kangeiko]

The new President is busy overturning close to a decade of insane and borderline-psychotic policies:
- A lift on the ban on stem cell research.
- Dropping the global gag rule.
- Banning 'enhanced interrogation' and rendition - or as we like to call it, torture and kidnapping.
- Pledging to close Guantanamo Bay, and all ghost prisonsOther stuff has

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[kangeiko]

More stuff to fuel the fire - on UK terrestrial TV, the Disasters Emergency Committee (made up of 12 charities, including Save the Children and Christian Aid) gets free airtime on all broadcasters. All have to screen the appeal, or none will. The Gaza appeal, due to be launched on Monday, had the BBC block permission to screen it, citing impartiality concerns.

Given how huge the public outcry has been, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 have agreed to screen the Gaza DEC appeal, but the BBC is still worried that it would bias their coverage of the conflict to show pictures of injured/killed civilians.

I just - there are no words. The only consolation is that, in denying the appeal airtime, sufficient protests and outcry have been generated to actually raise its profile more so than it otherwise would have been.