NEWS STORY : BBC News Article by Eben Leonard Changed Following Misreporting

STORY

The BBC has said that they have reviewed and changed an article written by Eben Leonard, a BBC journalist, which claimed that a pub had asked customers to leave because they were singing in Welsh. The BBC issued a statement saying:

“Having reviewed the report, the headline was amended to make it clear that customers in the pub were asked to leave because they were singing loudly, not because they were singing in Welsh. A passage was also added to the piece to explain this change.”

The article, which was on the front page of the BBC News on-line, caused the pub to suffer a number of negative reviews and hatred on-line. The BBC apologised for the article.