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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/13/bbc-palestine-lyric-mic-righteous
The corporation explained its decision in a statement: "All BBC programmes have a responsibility to be impartial when dealing with controversial subjects and an edit was made to Mic Righteous' freestyle to ensure that impartiality was maintained."
Since when were songs treated as news items? When did the BBC decide that artists have to be "impartial"?