locks, but it’s a story that keeps running in certain parts of “the journo-stream”, because it fits their preconceptions.
The meta-narrative is still of a Government/Establishment that bullies dissenters, manhandles Jewish refugees, and terrorises the BBC into subservience. In this situation almost everything can be read as fitting the same template. The BBC reviews coverage of the Middle East? It’s been bullied by the Israeli Government, says Kampfner. Grade believes some BBC coverage is too pro-EU? Then it is cosying up to some part of the Establishment as yet unspecified and undiscovered.
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