The first From Our Own Correspondent of 2019 featured a few interesting pieces and plenty of fine writing, but the piece from the BBC's Anna Foster the Central African Republic follows a trend we've recorded before.
The BBC has previously downplayed the role that Muslim fighters played in causing the Muslim-Christian slaughter in the country. And they've previously focused on the plight of minority Muslims there rather than the massacres against the Christian majority.
And today's FOOC similarly skirted around the murderous Muslim fanaticism behind the start of the civil, potentially misleading listeners into thinking that Christian militias were the cause of the war rather than being a reaction to Muslim atrocities.
And, again, FOOC focused on the plight of the Muslim community there, despite the major massacres there, including all the recent ones, being perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.
There's something deeply ingrained in BBC thinking here, and you have to read beyond the BBC to see how perverse it is.
And the second story was related to Brazil's newly elected president Jair Bolsonaro.
My goodness, if you ever doubted that the BBC takes positions on foreign affairs, just listen to the report on FOOC today, including Kate Adie's introduction!
Mr Bolsonaro's not my cup of Brazilian coffee either, but I'm no licence-fee-funded broadcaster.
I'll quote the programme's website to give you a hint of it:
I'll quote the programme's website to give you a hint of it:
As a proudly homophobic, far-right president assumes office in Brazil, Simon Maybin meets some of the country’s gay footballers
It was a highly opinionated, emotive piece - the radio equivalent of a fine, right-thinking Guardian column. And yet Simon is a BBC journalist.
Can't the BBC try to strike a little deeper into why such an extreme figure was elected rather than just keep flinging '-ist/-ism' epithets around and siding with the nasty man's electorally-defeated enemies?
