...the BBC. They had a Left-wing bias [in the good old days] and they made no apology for it. Now they have become almost pathological in their desire to avoid making any value judgments whatsoever. As James Clappison MP asked on Wednesday: “It makes you wonder what you have to do for the BBC to call you an extremist.”...
...would it have cost the BBC so much integrity to have called those who killed 52 civilians on London transport “terrorists”? A BBC memo at the time of 7/7 said they had to be called “bombers” instead — “terrorist” was a “loaded term”. Too right it was loaded, with 22lb of hydrogen peroxide, a 9-volt detonator and a copy of the Koran. It went without saying, they couldn’t be called Islamic extremists either. Islamic radicals, maybe. Or Islamic conservatives. But not Islamic extremists. That might have implied a value judgment.
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