See commentary critical of BBC’s coverage of the London terror attacks at The Telegraph, Biased BBC, USS Neverdock, and from Stephen Pollard. One particularly interesting item from The Telegraph:
Within hours of the explosions, a memo was sent to senior editors on the main BBC news programmes from Helen Boaden, head of news. While she was aware “we are dancing on the head of a pin”, the BBC was very worried about offending its World Service audience, she said.
BBC output was not to describe the killers of more than 50 in London as “terrorists” although – nonsensically – they could refer to the bombings as “terror attacks”. And while the guidelines generously concede that non-BBC should be allowed to use the “t” word, BBC online was not even content with that and excised it from its report of Tony Blair’s statement to the Commons.
Reminds us of Stephen Jukes’ Reuters memo following 9/11.
Meanwhile, Scott Burgess has caught The Guardian employing and publishing a Islamist ‘trainee journalist’.
(Hat tip: Instapundit)
