Worth noting from the article that there are clearly similar problems at the BBC.

Yup. They started running everything by their Jerusalem bureau over 20 years ago: BBC appoints Middle East tsar

The BBC has created a new senior editorial post to advise on its Middle East coverage, as the corporation continues to come under fire for alleged anti-Israeli bias.

Malcolm Balen, a former editor of the BBC’s Nine O’Clock News, has been appointed “senior editorial adviser” based in London but working closely with the corporation’s Middle East bureau in Jerusalem.

You could feel the tone of the coverage shift at 6am, when the day-shift started.

This happened shortly before Thompson took over. He’s taken the method to CNN.