Yesterday, I drew attention in this Diary to the fact that BBC News Online managed to report a vicious anti-black and antisemitic attack in Paris after a France/Israel football match without making any reference whatever to the racist and antisemitic nature of the attack, despite many such details having been reported by various news agencies. Subsequently, the BBC has updated its report with a new version, which contains the racist and antisemitic details it previously omitted. Whether it was shamed into doing so by my post is not known; it may simply have been forced to respond to President Chirac’s comments. However, a reader tells me that both CNN in the US and CTV in Canada also reported the ‘incident’ as merely a football scuffle, with no mention whatsoever of the racist nature of the attack. Did they both draw upon the BBC for their own reports? Or are they simply staffed by journalists with the same morally bankrupt world-view?