As "media" people we have a responsibility to be objective about the stories we cover.
I started my career with BBC news and have always had the upmost respect for the breadth and quality of its output.
But in recent months, where the conflict in the Middle East is concerned, I have begun to wonder whether this trust is misplaced.
I have grown deeply suspicious that powerful influences are blinding us to what is happening in those wretched places, the West Bank and Gaza.
Through the excellent Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme and through a Palestinian support group in my home town, I hear, at first hand, of the cruel behaviour of the Israeli military who crush and humiliate the Palestinians in a thousand different ways.
Meanwhile, Israel grabs more and more of the West Bank through its illegal settlements, surrounding them with its monstrous apartheid barrier.
Marshal Law, with its checkpoints, dawn raids and summary imprisonments make a living hell of the lives of people whose families have lived on their land for centuries.
Generally, my TV conveys a very different picture.
The impression given is that this is a just another conflict and if only we could knock their heads together and make them come to an agreement, all will be well.
Statements from the expert Israeli publicity machine sound so reasonable and seem to be taken at face value.
The fact that Israel flouts international law is dismissed as of no great importance.
There have been some notable exceptions - C4 in particular - but when the BBC refused to support the Gaza emergency relief appeal it made me wonder whether there are dark forces at work in the BBC.
Why is this happening? Are there Zionists in powerful places? Perhaps it's our guilty conscience about hundreds of years of anti-semitism? Is it simply that we don't want to upset economic ties or is our Government so firmly under the US thumb that they dare not rock the boat? The Christian community in Palestine feels let down by the Church in Britain.
They simply can't understand why they don't speak out against the injustices they are facing.
When the British people finally knew the facts about apartheid in South Africa they spoke with one voice, applying economic sanctions.
What is happening in Palestine is just another form of apartheid and I am sure that if people really understood the extent of the injustice they would want to act again.