{"id":1800,"date":"2002-03-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/03\/24\/2002-03-24-hindu-human-rights-group-gets-bbc-to-change\/"},"modified":"2002-03-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-24T12:00:00","slug":"2002-03-24-hindu-human-rights-group-gets-bbc-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/03\/24\/2002-03-24-hindu-human-rights-group-gets-bbc-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Human Rights Group Gets BBC to Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cozwecare.homestead.com\/BBC.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>HATFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM, March 24, 2002: Mahendra Joshi of the human rights organization, &#8220;Cause We Care,&#8221; reports that they have successfully gotten the BBC to replace the word &#8220;militant&#8221; with the word &#8220;activist&#8221; when describing the Hindus attacked on the train in Godhra. At first, the BBC said, &#8220;Hundreds of people have died in India in the past two weeks after Muslim activists attacked a train carrying Hindu militants back from Ayodhya.&#8221; Many other reports used the term &#8220;militant Hindus&#8221; when describing the Hindus killed, who were almost all women and children. Cause We Care lodged an official complaint with the BBC, backed by hundreds of e-mails from supporters. They received a reply from the BBC Newsonline stating, &#8220;We recognize that the use of the words referred to in your e-mail was not appropriate. Accordingly, we have changed the sentence concerned.&#8221; Since then the BBC has been using &#8220;Hindu activists&#8221; in their reports on the train attack. The details are available at &#8220;source&#8221; above. They are next approaching the New York Times on the same issue.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE HATFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM, March 24, 2002: Mahendra Joshi of the human rights organization, &#8220;Cause We Care,&#8221; reports,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}