Something thats been bugging me....

...and maybe other people can judge this better than i as i've not been totally up to date with the news etc and yes there are far more important things also related to this particulat recent news event. It's just that when i've been looking at coverage of the London bombings since i got back home and they have discovered that 2 or 3 of them i think were British, other born in Jamaica i think. It's just that every reference that i've noticed and that has stuck in my memory is that they are "British-born" rather than British.

It seems that since they have become associated with such a horrible event and caused the deaths of so many innocent people and who knows what sort of effect on the survivors that they cannot be described as British, as if no one British could have done such a thing. It smacks of a kind of latent racism to me and irrespective of ones opinion of what they have done why shouldn't the facts of the case just be presented as they are.

A small disclaimer here, i am assuming that they are British citizens as i havn't read anywhere that said they wern't, indeed there is a scan of one of thems very British looking passport in todays Independent.

Any other examples of this kind of reporting in different stories i'd be interested to hear about them.