The British broadcaster corrected an article in which the Jewish genocide was not capitalized because the author did not find it unique.
The BBC on Monday corrected its failure to capitalize the word “Holocaust” in an article, after a journalist had initially defended the error by claiming “other holocausts” existed beyond the Jewish one.
The failure and the initial defense of it highlighted broader issues with the BBC’s coverage of Israel and Jews. In recent years, scandals around those issues have eroded the already thinning confidence that many British Jews and others have in the public broadcaster, which historically was widely considered a paragon of journalistic integrity.
The correction was of a Jan. 27 article that had used the lower case for the word throughout. A reader complained to the BBC about this, prompting an experienced BBC broadcast journalist to reply to the complainant that: “Historically, there have been other examples of holocausts elsewhere,” Jewish News of London reported.
