The BBC keep proudly saying "we name him" at the same time as reporting that security doesn't want him named. Don't any viewers find the media peculiar? Why not simply admit "we like people to die because of our behaviour because only one thing matters - a good story".

That is unbelievable. Why would the BBC do that? They wouldn't be so stupid as to let themselves be manipulated, would they? At least they don't seem to be giving it wall-to-wall coverage, unlike CNN International. They just won't leave the subject alone. In a report the other day, they flashed up a montage of photos of identifiable hostages kneeling in their orange jumpsuits and another image of someone in an orange jumpsuit in a cage. Just in passing, like wallpaper. I was wondering who was making the decisions on how to report it.

That spokesman tonight claiming it was the British authorities' fault that this ghastly thug did the things he did. Truly pathetic.

not interested in knowing his name or history but now he has been named..he will have to live up to his reputation and lop off more heads.

there must be a Jihad ISIL type local Max Clifford doing their PR as they get amazing publicity.

I am slightly confused by all the coverage on this. It doesn't seem to me to deserve more than a few lines.

I doubt he did fuck all. The BBC and Isis are great for creating bullshit.

Perhaps there are interests too who would be happy to stoke this in the West and try to influence media coverage. The Russian woman who had an affair with the Porstmouth Lib Dem MP and was suspected of being a spy wrote an article for The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/profile/ekaterina-zatuliveter
Russian lover of British MP Mike Hancock not a spy, says security court
Lib Dem aide was Russia's best spy in 30 years, says top KGB defector

The coverage about her in The Guardian appears to have been generally more positive than in the Daily Mail.

What worries me is not JJ but all those others in the school photo whose faces seem to have disappeared. Call in David Icke!

Jihadi John - didn't he have a hit back in the late 70s with "Gordon is a Muslim"?

Delighted to see on News Watch that the BBC was bombarded by people saying exactly what we've been saying here - don't mention the man or his behaviour. Media, yet again, ignore all responsibility for "a good story".

Andrew Neil absolutely destroyed that buffoon from CAGE last Thursday on This Week. Well worth catching on iplayer.