Headline news when the BBC thought the film-maker was an Israeli, less so now he probably wasn't.

When rumours emerged that the film-maker behind the film 'Innocence of Muslims' might be an Israeli Jew, the BBC were all over the story, headline news and the story appeared in the BBC's most popular (read) section. Now that the story has changed, the BBC have not apologised all they have done is add this pusillanimous sentence right near the end of this article:

'The exact origin of the movie and the internet clip, and the motivation behind its production, remains a mystery, but it appears not to be linked to an Israeli film-maker as was earlier widely reported, including by the BBC.'

The fact that the BBC, amongst other news media, publicised the news that the film-maker was an Israeli Jew and hence inflamed antisemitic sentiment amongst Islamists whose antisemitism is usually at fever-pitch anyway, is apparently excused by the above sentence. Well I don't think it is. At the very least the BBC could make the retraction as obvious as the original story but why bother as it's only Jews that might be attacked or killed as a result of the BBC's initial story and does the BBC really care about them?