Saturday, July 22, 2006

Lebanon - BBC stealth edits Bishops stance

Ed at Biased BBC catches the BBC doing some stealth editing to their report on Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' stance on Lebanon.

The original headline for the BBC report was: "Bishop slams UK over Middle East"

After the BBC stealth edited the report the headline now reads: "Back peace call, archbishop urges"

I'm not sure what else was stealth edited but Ed has this to say:

I still have the original BBC article open on my computer even as the stealth edit has kicked in- radically. Luckily I quoted the intro [ edit: change of headline spins it very differently].



The current BBC report is here.

Here's a screen shot of a Google search for the original headline.



Now, here's a screen shot of the BBC search for the same headline.



Interesting.
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