The Bureau

I don't agree with the BBC's decision not to broadcast the DEC's Gaza appeal, but I can at least understand why Mark Thompson struggled with it (incidentally, it's nice to see citizens complaining about something a little more important than Jonathan Ross for a change).

But what I don't understand is their decision not to mention the furore that this decision has created. The Guardian have reported it. CBS have reported it. As a British citizen I expect the BB-fucking-C to tell me the news, but when I go to the BBC news homepage, it tells me nothing about the 10,000 complaints it has received since refusing to broadcast the appeal, nor does it tell me about the protestors who staged a protest at the BBC's offices in Glasgow yesterday.

In fact, I heard about the protest on Twitter first, when someone I follow posted a picture taken inside the presentation. I flicked through the news sites intermittently for a while, and read nothing, so I retweeted the info. A while later I noticed someone else had retweeted my tweet again, so Twitter users were clearly clamouring for the information.

Four hours later and the Guardian have picked up on the story, but the BBC? They're telling me that 'breast ops defy financial gloom'. I've had a low opinion of the Beeb's news production for years, but this really takes the biscuit.