Spot what the BBC still don't include in their report

Back in January, I blogged about the BBC's odd reporting of the murder of 16 year old Henry Webster. The accused were found guilty recently and the BBC reported this whilst still managing to miss out the same salient fact that they missed when reporting the trial in January. The Guardian have less reticence in pointing out that the attackers were "a gang of Asian males, from Swindon, (who) travelled to Wroughton for the fight, which had been co-ordinated through a sequence of phone calls and text messages.". The Guardian also inform us that "Khan and Qazi blamed each other for the attacks during more than four weeks' evidence. Khan also claimed that he was under pressure from his local Asian community not to name the teenager responsible."


The BBC's limitless protection of some minority communities will in the end prove to have not been a help to community cohesion in this Country but a barrier. When that time comes, I hope those at the BBC responsible for bowdlerising the news will be held accountable.