Just stick to the basics, BBC

The BBC is probably the most objective, reliable, and balanced Western news resource out there. Factual, up-to-the-minute reporting, ultra cautious analysis, and that trademark dry, British tone are what we have become accustomed to expecting from the British Broadcasting Corporation...



That's why I sort of have to kick myself when I read something like this on their website:

Tripoli has a large Sunni Muslim majority who, culturally at least, seem very Syrian - given the city's proximity to Syria's coastal cities.

"[G]iven the city's proximity to Syria's coastal cities"? Really? So is Marjayoun in the south of Lebanon culturally similar to Israel because of it's proximity to their Northern settlements? I mean culturally anyway, whether we Lebanese admit or deny it, we are pretty similar to Syrians anyway. Just give us the facts BBC, and stick to the basics, please...