Roy Greenslade, blogging at the Grauniad, asks BBC Newsround's al-Qaeda posting: why, oh why, did they do it?, mentioning Biased BBC's role in getting the BBC to revise their CBBC Newsround 9/11 Guide (again).

Roy describes Biased BBC as being being "cock-a-hoop because, lo and behold, it appears to have achieved a major climbdown". And there was me thinking my 'It looks like we've had a result' post was quite restrained - particularly since we haven't had any word from the BBC beyond the change itself, given our experience of BBC Views Online pages magically changing whenever the BBC think's no one is looking.

Roy is right about it being a major climbdown for the BBC, the revisions coming all of 48 hours after Sinead Rocks, Newsround's Editor, declared "we stand by" the previous version - and this was after she'd taken it offline for a day 'for review'. I wonder what changed between one review and the next a couple of days later.

More interestingly, Roy writes:

I tend to be, as a liberal, somewhat sceptical about claims of bias, but I have to say my breath was taken away by an extraordinary revelation on Damian Thompson's Daily Telegraph blog [referring to Biased BBC's story] about an item on the BBC Newsround website which is, of course, to inform young people.

Having recovered his breath, Roy concludes:

I think it's fair to ask the BBC to be more forthcoming about how they did do it? Was that really unconscious or conscious bias? Who was responsible? Have they been disciplined? We need to know more.

Those are questions we'd like to see answered too - tellytaxpayers deserve a bit more of an explanation than just a few quiet anonymous edits. Time for another post on the BBC Editors Blog it seems.

I have a question for Roy (and his fellow BBC bias sceptics) though. Given that the version that the BBC "stood by" took Roy's breath away, what is his reaction to the newly recovered CBBC Newsround 9/11 Guide (see post below) that was online for several years, until June 2007, when the matter was first raised by Biased BBC?

Thank you to Peter for the link.