The BBC criticized one of its reporters for saying she cried at Yasser Arafat’s decline. The BBC Governor’s Program Complaints Committee said in a statement Saturday that Barbara Plett had “breached the requirements of due impartiality” in an Oct. 30, 2004, story describing the ailing Palestinian leader’s departure to a French hospital, where he later died.
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