Saturday, October 07, 2006

UK - BBC bias and stealth editing

Harry's Place catches the BBC doing what we and Biased BBC document almost daily. HP notes these stealth edits:

- MPACUK is no longer refered to as a "civil liberties" organisation, or indeed at all.
- The suggestion that the groups consulted are "representing Muslims" has been replaced with the neutral, and more accurate, "Muslim groups".
- The phrase "angry response" has been replaced with "mixed response", and balance has been introduced into the article, in the form of a quotation from a MCB spokesman.


Strangely, they end with this.

"Well done, the BBC!"


Well done for getting the story horribly wrong in the first place and then stealth editing it without so much as a note of corrections, something the BBC does almost daily by the way, and the BBC are to be given a well done?!? I don't think so. HP was just being kind.

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