The way this same story has been spun by the BBC worries me.

You'd think the news line has to be, as the Guardian and others are reporting, GCHQ mass Internet surveillance was 'unlawful'.

The Beeb did go with 'unlawful' in their original headline but the story has since been watered down with sheer wordiness.

'Unlawlful' now appears in the tenth paragraph, below an analysis panel, and is only then included in a quotation from a campaign group.

Nowhere in the article does the BBC succinctly say a tribunal held that GCHQ breached human rights law. It simply says the agency is now complaint (without saying that it was not for seven years).

To me at least, it seems the BBC is becoming less of a public-service broadcaster and more of a state one.

-- GCHQ censured over sharing of internet surveillance data with US http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31164451