UPDATED: BIAS AT THE BBC

Last year, there was a blistering article by Tom Gross in National Review on the BBC's relentless and venomous bias in its Israel coverage. Worth a read.

Fast forward to the BBC's TV coverage this past Sunday of the Tel Aviv bombing, in which five people died and 49 were injured. Using a clip entitled 'A family in mourning', the family it showed was not one of the Israeli dead but of the human bomb terrorist instead. After it received criticism, the BBC issued this lame 'correction.'

The programme editors and I agree it was inappropriate to begin the report with footage of the suicide bomber's family in mourning. It was also inappropriate to include this footage without coverage of the suffering of the victims' families. Using this picture sequence in this way was a mistake. However, the report's coverage of the political ramifications of the bombing and this week's London conference was balanced and fair - and we did, of course, report fully the events in Tel Aviv in our bulletins on Friday night and Saturday.