Remember when the liberals in Congress and elsewhere were engaged in spittle-spraying fits of rage over the defunding of NPR and PBS, the closest thing the United States has to government-run media? Well, across the pond, in the once-Great Britain, they have heavily government-dominated media; it’s called the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and it operates under a royal charter. The Beeb, as our British cousins call it, is hardly a bastion of impartiality. 

But on Sunday, they released a sob story about a Gazan woman, flown to Italy for medical treatment, describing her as “malnourished.” But there’s a catch; she didn’t die of malnutrition. The BBC buried the catch in the fourth paragraph.

Way to bury the lede, BBC.

A Gazan woman who was evacuated to Italy for treatment while severely emaciated has died in hospital.

The 20-year-old, identified as Marah Abu Zuhri, flew to Pisa with her mother on an overnight flight on Wednesday under a scheme set up by the Italian government.

The University Hospital of Pisa said she suffered a cardiac arrest and died on Friday, less than 48 hours after arriving. It said she had a “very complex clinical picture” and had suffered severe loss of weight and muscle. Italian news agencies reported she was suffering from severe malnutrition.

Now, granted, that’s sad. This woman, a girl, really, died at age 20, and that’s a tragic thing. Nobody that young should die. But she didn’t die of malnutrition. She had something else wrong, something that often results in severe loss of weight and muscle.

Cogat, the Israeli military body in charge of aid, said on Sunday that she had suffered from leukaemia.

Yes, that’s right. The cause of death was not officially announced, but leukemia was, at a minimum, a contributing factor – one the BBC doesn’t see fit to mention until the fourth paragraph. That’s journalistic malpractice, nothing but.