BBC World Briefing

Listening to the BBC World Briefing program about Nir Barkat's plans to build a park in East Jerusalem, I was expecting to be presented with the plain facts. Instead, the report was prefaced by BBC's Arab Affairs analyst, Magdi Abdelhadi, who stated that, "Building on occupied Palestinian land is, arguably, the most formidable obstacle to peace negotiations.."
The BBC airs From our Own Correspondent, which offers reflections from correspondents. In the World Briefing program, I expect the facts without any editorializing.
The program brought to mind the incident from a number of years ago when Barabara Plett reported on Yasser Arafat's funeral.

During the programme, broadcast in October last year, Plett described covering Arafat's illness and airlift by helicopter from his home in Ramallah to a French hospital as "a real grind". She added: "Yet when the helicopter carrying the frail old man rose from his ruined compound, I started to cry ... without warning".
The programme prompted hundreds of complaints from those who said the BBC should not broadcast the personal opinions of its correspondents on controversial matters and fuelled claims from some that the BBC was pro-Palestine.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/nov/26/bbc.radio