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The King is the Royal Patron of the RTS and the group of nearly 400 people have asked to meet with him and “demanded transparency” about the body’s decision-making process around its journalism awards.

The letter has been signed by BBC heavyweights including Jonathan Dimbleby, Orla Guerin and Fergal Keane, along with the likes of Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Matt Frei. Dimbleby branded the RTS “cowards” over the move.

The saga started with the RTS’ shock decision to scrap a special recognition award for journalists in Gaza due to not wanting to “add fuel to the fire” around Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, the BBC documentary that was pulled after it was revealed that the child narrator was the son of a Hamas minister. The move has been criticized since, resulting in this letter collated by the Artists for Palestine UK group.

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Mashni, a regular on the ABC, was interviewed by afternoon TV anchor Kathryn Robinson at around 3.30pm on Monday, and was asked about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s recent remarks about Israel’s actions.

The interview was then uploaded to the ABC’s news site on Monday afternoon, but had been removed by Tuesday morning — although the link still appeared on Google. The footage was also removed from the ABC’s streaming service, iview.

Mashni said he only became aware of the situation on Tuesday morning “after it was brought to my attention by supporters who were trying to share the piece but could no longer find it”.

Mashni said the ABC had not contacted him about any complaints in relation to the interview, nor any “editorial decisions” made about the discussion.

Crikey received a statement from the ABC on Wednesday morning, a day after this story was published, which said the interview had been uploaded to the broadcaster’s website and iview accidentally.

“The original content was done as a live-to-air interview as part of broader coverage and was not intended to be published as a stand-alone clip. It was mistakenly uploaded and when that was noticed it was taken down,” a spokesperson said.

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I was watching it, and I could smell the complaints from a mile away.

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Media Watch last night had a follow up report.

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Journalists be spreading that famous type of propaganda: “recording everything bad we do and showing the world who we are”