“Lancashire Police have “condemned” a “misleading” report by the BBC, claiming a ten-year-old Muslim boy’s family had been investigated after he accidentally wrote that he lived in a “terrorist” house in his homework, when he meant “terraced”.
The police said there were genuine concerns about the boys “safety”, which “the reporter was fully aware of this before she wrote her story”, however the BBC’s version of events was picked up by every mainstream news outlet in the UK, and seized upon by Islamists and opponents of the government’s new anti-terror laws.
“The level of debate about this story today is not warranted given the facts and misrepresents the role of all the agencies involved”, the police said.
The original report by BBC Asian Network claimed that police “over reacted to an innocent mistake”. It was based around a brief statement from police, simply stating they had investigated, and lengthy interviews with sympathetic family members.The family denied all wrongdoing, claimed that incident had arisen from a spelling error in a boy’s homework, and that the unfortunate incident had left the boy “traumatised”. The BBC did little to question this account.”
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This is a strong argument for keeping the bbc out of future press conferences
The amount of times they neglect to publish a description of a criminal is a joke. It’s detrimental to the police’s efforts in catching criminals, and now they are reporting false claims even when they’re given the full story
Failing to abide by the rules of their Charter
Surely you know the rules by now?
Accurately reporting stuff that actually happened is ‘inflammatory’ and will almost certainly lead to that ‘anti Muslim backlash’ that has been imminent for the last fifteen years.
Meanwhile, reporting bogus atrocity stories is the very epitome of responsible reporting.
Apparently, everything Donald Trump ever said risks radicalising otherwise peace-loving Muslims, but phony baloney stories of persecution are fine.
Also, note that the (real) allegations involved regular beatings of a young boy. Is this kind of thing going to make the police more or less likely to investigate these crimes in the (ahem) ‘Asian’ community? Could being bought up in an atmosphere of unhinged violence itself create a propensity for violence? The BBC don’t care, they’ve got a narrative to push, and if a few kids get victimised, that’s a price the Saville Broadcasting Corporation is prepared to pay!
If it fits the narrative then fact checking is not required. Gone very quiet on the non-flying Muslim family. And who now remembers The tourists murdered in Tunisia? Let alone the students murdered in Kenya? What’s become of the trojan horse story? What about Rotherham? Why does a BBC Asian Network even exist?
The standard of reporting demonstrated regarding this story is typical BBC practice these days, the damage caused is almost criminal neglect if due to poor journalism, or altogether more sinister should as the police state “the reporter was fully aware…”. I look forward to seeing the BBC apology and await the result of the internal investigation into both the operating practice of the journalist and her journalistic credentials. Yet another poisonous seed planted in peoples minds by an equally poisonous organisation.
BBC News 24 prioritized a speech by President Obama over reporting the Tunisia massacre because it was about race relations.