Has the BBC been mugged by reality? With claims by Palestinian Islamic terrorists in Gaza that they have executed BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, the BBC appears to be toughening up on its usual almost sympathetic attitude to Muslim terrorism.
BBC radio was planning to broadcast what the BBC had described as a comedy, titled “Weddings and Beheadings,” tomorrow (Thursday), about an Iraqi cameraman who earns his income filming the beheadings of hostages.
Apparenty now that one of their own has possibly been beheaded, the BBC no longer finds the subject funny, and the BBC Radio web site now says the “broadcast has been postponed.”
But will this sudden reality check prove merely temporary, as a similar reality check did after the London transport bombings of 2005?