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BBC Scrubs ‘Ali' From Munich Killer's Name On TV, In Articles, AND On Social Media
2016-07-24
[Breitbart] The BBC has unilaterally chosen not to report the Munich attacker’s full name, in what appears to be an attempt to scrub any Muslim or Islamic heritage link to its coverage of the incident.

Most sources at this point suggest that Ali David Sonboly ‐ the Munich attacker who targeted children and killed nine yesterday ‐ is not connected to radical Islam, but the BBC has gone to extraordinary lengths to try to keep any reference to his heritage out of its coverage, opting to name him only as "David Sonboly".

Other news organisations including the Wall Street Journal, Independent, Daily Mail, and Sky News named the attacker as "Ali David Sonboly" or "David Ali Sonboly". CNN even referred to him simply as "Ali Sonboly".
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  The German press - following an odd "press codex" - never mentions his last name, only naming him "David S.".

Nothing to see here.
Posted by: European Conservative   2016-07-24 11:52  

#6  Ali or Hussein. BBC or US main street media - "What difference does it make?"
Posted by: illeagle   2016-07-24 10:14  

#5  You said "BBC" you said everything that needs to be said.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-07-24 06:28  

#4  The media playing this as a lone gunman rightwing style attack. I have yet to see a single reference to him persecuted in school because he was a shiia, and he appeared to have specifically targeted sunni muslims.

Immigrants bring their hatreds with them. If this isn't terrorism, then neither are the numerous sunni-shiia-sunni massacres across the Middle East.
Posted by: phil_b   2016-07-24 04:22  

#3  Reminds me of the Home Security Company teevee advert where the hapless burglar is always someone who looks just like me, only wearing a watch cap and 50 years younger.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-07-24 03:52  

#2  And Dawood suddenly becomes David, even at Breitbart.
Posted by: Cravirt Flusong7056   2016-07-24 00:58  

#1  No agenda here...
Posted by: Raj   2016-07-24 00:39  

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