Sunday, 3 February 2019

Behind the scenes (2)


(h/t StewGreen)

Back on the Ralph Northam story, the BBC News website now has a new report about it headlined Virginia Governor Ralph Northam refuses to quit over racism row. This replaced the original report. Once again though, it omits the fact that Governor Northam is a Democrat and is written in such a way that the reader is liable to assume he's a Republican. 


Checking Newssniffer reveals something even stranger. The first version of this new webstory did say he was a Democrat:


This then got edited out.

Curiouser and curiouser.

P.S. The Sky News website shows the BBC how to report it properly:


Update 9.30am (h/t Arthur Trof): And now it's back! Yes, there's been another change to the BBC report: