It’s all about Jimmy Bowen…life that is:
Jeremy Bowen: I know there’s trouble in the Middle East when I need my flak jacket, gas mask and Kevlar pants
When the journalist becomes the story….. we all get bored.
Journalists in the Middle East need to be mobile. Visits to presidential palaces, foreign ministries and embassies all matter but being on the streets is the best way to get to the heart of the matter. My physio tells me I will stop limping fairly soon. Then I’ll be able to cycle and, after that, run.
Yawn.
It does all seem to be about the ‘Bowen’ rather than the news for Jimmy….though he’s not shy about lecturing world leaders on how to run their affairs and castigating the West for invading Iraq:
The BBC’s Middle East editor on John Kerry striking the wrong tone over Ukraine, and remembering the Aleppo souks.
I am not proposing a reprise of the row over UN Security Council resolutions or whether or not the United States, the UK and their allies were acting legally or illegally but it is important to remember that many countries did not buy the west’s version, so it has to expect a sceptical response when it scolds others.
And of course Bowen has a very high opinion of his own ‘journalism’:
Jeremy Bowen attacks BBC Trust for Gaza ruling
Middle East editor defends his reporting on Israel after BBC Trust finds him guilty of inaccuracies
and still, five years on, can’t accept a bit of criticism:
BBC’s Bowen revives five year-old grudge in Indy interview
“He is still smarting from a controversial BBC Trust finding against him in 2009.”
Jim Bowen should have stuck to that darts game show Bullseye. Out of his depth in the Middle East but at least he doesn’t walk around in the headscarf like that other Middle Easter Moron Lyse Doucet does.
This has all the hallmarks of a Bowen unbiased report
I’ve just found this lovely addition to these:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jeremy-bowen-my-career-long-battle-6794781