Worth flagging a developing angle on the Rowan Williams story that Matt Wardman is pushing. Peter Rippon, Editor of R4's World at One, has posted on the BBC Editors blog about the strength of reaction to Rowans speech but as Matt sets out at length the guts of the hysterical public response to the story can be attributed to the shockingly alarmist way the BBC initially trailed then reported their interview ahead of the speech. Others including Sunny Hundal over at liberalconspiracy.org have picked up on the same theme.As the story broke I recall the BBC News page ticker running with "The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the adoption of Sharia Law in some parts of Britain is inevitable" - anyone who then took the time to actually read his speech or a transcript of the interview (and believe me that needs time) would have to acknowledge that he said nothing as blunt as that. As Matt's fisk makes clear the BBC were guilty of a fairly standard journalistic twist - stripped back context and selective quoting and bam! you have a juicier story. Hardly a unique crime but one you'd have thought the UK's premier news provider was a little above.
Hat-tip to Beau Bo D'Or for the graphic...
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