BBC's London Whitewash Update

BizzyBlog's Tom Blumer emails us a link to this op-ed piece in the Telegraph about the use of the word 'terrorist' at the BBC:

Bomber, attacker, insurgent, militant - all are fine by the Beeb because they carry no "emotional or value judgments". And heaven forbid anyone get emotional about the deaths of at least 52 people in the London bombings last week.

Within hours of the explosions, a memo was sent to senior editors on the main BBC news programmes from Helen Boaden, head of news. While she was aware "we are dancing on the head of a pin", the BBC was very worried about offending its World Service audience, she said.

BBC output was not to describe the killers of more than 50 in London as "terrorists" although - nonsensically - they could refer to the bombings as "terror attacks". And while the guidelines generously concede that non-BBC should be allowed to use the "t" word, BBC online was not even content with that and excised it from its report of Tony Blair's statement to the Commons.

It is this sort of political correctness that the Islamofascists are counting on to weaken us. The BBC should be ashamed of themselves. It is amazing that moral relativism of this magnitude has infected the corporate world of the modern media. If it's just about money (viewership and readership translates into money in the corporate media world), then choose your side and get on with it...but don't be surprised, media elites, if there are those of us out here who are going to call you on it. And you will lose some of that precious viewership and cashola that you crave so much.