Last year, the British Broadcasting Corporation commissioned a report to investigate whether its coverage is biased. The report, which is now complete, has concluded that the BBC “failed to promote proper debate on major political issues because of the inherent liberal culture of its staff.”

London’s Telegraph reports:

The report concludes BBC staff must be more willing to challenge their own beliefs.

It reads: “There is a tendency to ‘group think’ with too many staff inhabiting a shared space and comfort zone.”

A staff impartiality seminar held last year is also documented in the report, at which executives admitted they would broadcast images of the Bible being thrown away but not the Koran, in case Muslims were offended.

On that last point, BBC executives are simply responding to (and perpetuating) the reality that has become clear in the last few years: the amount of respect shown to a given religion is directly proportional to the amount of violence members of that religion commit when they feel disrespected.