Corporation says revision began before Paris attack, but David Dimbleby still quotes out-of-date guidelines on Question TimeThe BBC is revising its own rules banning the representation of the prophet Muhammad “in any shape or form”, it has emerged after a Charlie Hebdo cover featured on BBC1’s flagship 10pm news on Thursday.The news bulletin featured library footage of Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier, who was shot and killed in Wednesday’s terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine’s Paris offices, holding up a special edition of the magazine four years ago featuring a cartoon of Muhammad on its front page threatening readers with “a hundred lashes if you don’t die laughing”. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]