The independent inquiry into the BBC’s Mideast coverage released its long-awaited full report (in pdf format). The report says coverage does not “consistently give a full and fair account,” slammed “the elusiveness of editorial planning, grip and oversight” and called on the BBC to use the word “terror.” In his introduction to the report, inquiry chairman Sir Quentin Thomas wrote:
We say that the BBC should get the language right. We think they should call terrorist acts ‘terrorism’ because that term is clear and well understood.
But the report refused to say that BBC was systematically biased:
Our assessment is that, apart from individual lapses, there was little to suggest deliberate or systematic bias.
