Remembering something else....
I watched Wednesday night's News at Ten and saw its coverage of the conviction of the Hussain brothers in Rotherham for raping and assaulting (non-Muslim) teenage girls.
The story righly led the bulletin and dominated its first quarter of an hour.
The two featured BBC reporters mentioned, in passing, the criticisms that political correctness had stymied the investigations into the grooming of thousands of girls there but, astonishingly, didn't initially develop that point.
And it was a full 12 minutes into the bulletin before the BBC's own political correctness allowed even a hint of the story's racial/religious angle - i.e the first (brief) mention of the word 'Pakistani'.
(The word 'Muslim', of course, never featured once. Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadhan Foundation, who invariably appears at this point in the BBC's reporting of such stories, then duly appeared.)
(The word 'Muslim', of course, never featured once. Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadhan Foundation, who invariably appears at this point in the BBC's reporting of such stories, then duly appeared.)
Frankly, the BBC is the last organisation to accuse others of political correctness when it comes to this kind of story and the irony of this particular bulletin doing that was beyond a joke.
Don't they see it?
Don't they see it?
