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KATIE HIND: Corporation sent 500 staff to Glastonbury - and not one acted as Bob Vylan shouted 'death to the IDF'
The BBC sent around 500 staff to Glastonbury - yet punk act Bob Vylan's tirade of hate against Israel shown live on its airwaves was not brought to an immediate halt.
As the corporation is now set to be reprimanded, chiefs will have to explain why not one of its vast number of employees taken to the festival at the licence fee payers’ expense pulled the broadcast of the London-based duo. Following the BBC’s apology yesterday, in which it conceded that Bob Vylan should have been taken off air, some of those employees may now face questioning as the corporation attempts to establish why the broadcast was allowed to continue. The second Bobby Vylan [the band’s singer] described music industry executives... as Zionists, it was clear there was a hate problem coming.
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