Further to yesterday's post about how BBC One's News at Six covered the jailing of a Rochdale paedophile gang....
Last night's BBC One News at Ten went right back to the old BBC way of reporting such stories by omitting anything about ethnicity (or religion).
On the News at Six we got:
Nine men of Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage have been jailed for up to 25 years for sexual offences against a teenage girl in Rochdale. A tenth man was jailed last year. The girl told police she'd been groomed by a large number of men in the town from the age of 14.
On the News at Ten we got:
A bus driver from Rochdale in Greater Manchester has been jailed for 25 years for rape and sexual activity with children. Nine other men have been jailed for up to 23 years for sexual offences involving children. One victim told police she'd been groomed by a large number of men in Rochdale from the age of 14.
It's those darned "men" again. You know, the ones protrayed as laughably incompetent idiots in TV adverts or as powerfully malevolent masterminds in TV spy series.
ReplyDeleteI find that the careful omission of any reference to ethnicity or religion in these crimes goes beyond bias. It's into the class of "cover-up", "manipulation" and "propaganda". Perhaps this issue has been the one that's convinced me that the BBC is never to be trusted. I wonder now whether there are Muslims high up in the BBC hierarchy that are deliberately suppressing the reporting of crimes by Muslims.
ReplyDeleteOFF TOPIC: Heard the Now Show on Radio 4 today. You know the ex comedy programme that is now insinuating a "news light" segment into the schedules that presumably bypasses all the BBC news standards and controls. Today they interviewed Luke Harding of - yes - The Guardian about the Panamanian Papers scandal. The banter almost took you to an Islington dining table where people were on the third bottle of wine after an excellent lunch, with all its lazy assumptions, shared safe space humour and signalled virtue. But wait, hang on, surely the fearless satirists of the Now Show wouldn't fail to point out the irony that the Guardian Media Group also used an offshore banking account for tax avoidance purposes? Er...too damn right they wouldn't. Pathetic.
ReplyDeleteThere were probably certain complaints made from either a certain community or from the government - or both - between the earlier and later broadcast.
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