Sunday, 14 August 2016

Changes


Here's something peculiar, courtesy of Newssniffer, which I stumbled on yesterday while searching for something else... 

The main BBC online article announcing, on 16 May, that:


was suddenly edited yesterday, almost three months later. 

The original article had already been amended once (on 16 May) from:


to:


Yesterday (13 August), however, it was edited again, this time from:


to:


Intriguing. 

Had someone successfully complained to the BBC that "Islamophobia" is not a "form of racism"?

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Going back to the earlier amendment in May - the one that added the word "independent" to "the inquiry" - maybe that also needs amending again now, this time to remove the word "independent".

Given that Shami didn't just join the Labour Party but went on to produce a whitewash of a report and then was put in the House of Lords by Jeremy Corbyn, the BBC article appears to have been right first time round.