Here we go again.
As detailed by Alan at Biased BBC, we're once more in that weird situation where the BBC is holding back from reporting details that many other media outlets (newspapers like the Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Sun, The Evening Standard, etc) have already reported.
The BBC News website has reported that a nursery worker has been subjected to a knife attack in London.
It hasn't, however, reported what all of those newspapers have been reporting: that the three "Asian" girls who carried out the attack are said to have chanted the name of "Allah" (and other "Allah"-related cries) as they did so.
It hasn't, however, reported what all of those newspapers have been reporting: that the three "Asian" girls who carried out the attack are said to have chanted the name of "Allah" (and other "Allah"-related cries) as they did so.
Whether the BBC's caution in reporting such information is justified or not ('waiting for the full facts to come in'? 'maintaining social cohesion'?), there is no doubt that the BBC (as so often before) is engaging in very careful news management here. They are deliberately keeping parts of the story back from their readers.
(In fairness to the BBC, ITV are behaving in the same way too and the Sky website hasn't even reported the story).
(In fairness to the BBC, ITV are behaving in the same way too and the Sky website hasn't even reported the story).
