I read the Times's take, Lonely hearts jihadist couple guilty of bomb terror plot, before reading the BBC's, Derby terror plot: The online Casanova and his lover. The Times begins:
After reading that it and then moving onto the BBC News website, it surely must strike you that Dominic Casciani's BBC piece is deliberately avoiding using the word 'Muslim'. The word is conspicuous by its absence.
The Times mentions the name of the dating site where the terrorists met - SingleMuslim.com - not only once but twice. Dominic Casciani for the BBC, in contrast, despite writing a much longer piece, only refers to it as "a dating website", never naming it.
Incidentally, the news of their conviction is now nowhere to be seen among the 13 top news stories on the BBC's home page. ITV and Sky still have it among their main news stories.
