The BBC is not the most self-critical of organisations but Lord Alton of Liverpool and Fr Leo Chamberlain of Ampleforth have actually prevailed in the matter of a complaint against a news broadcast in which a reporter stood at Auschwitz and proclaimed, as fact, that the attitude of the Catholic Church to the Holocaust was one of silence.
These days the BBC seems remarkably untroubled by anything as inconvenient as proper research and is content to repeat any old canard as long as it adds melodrama or controversy to what was once straightforward coverage of the news.
