Editing Rod Liddle (section)

===BBC coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela===
In December 2013 in a blog article for ''[[The Spectator]]'' website published shortly after [[Nelson Mandela]] died, Liddle wrote that the BBC coverage on his death was excessive.<ref name="Liddle051213">Rod Liddle [http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2013/12/nelson-mandela-dies-aged-95-the-bbc-goes-into-overdrive/ "Nelson Mandela dies, aged 95"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208043311/http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2013/12/nelson-mandela-dies-aged-95-the-bbc-goes-into-overdrive/ |date=8 December 2013 }}, ''The Spectator'' (blog), 5 December 2013</ref><ref name="Plunkett">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/06/rod-liddle-bbc-nelson-mandela-spectator|title=Rod Liddle criticises BBC for too much coverage of Nelson Mandela death|last=Plunkett|first=John|work=The Guardian|date=6 December 2013|access-date=6 December 2013}}</ref> Richard Garside, director of the [[Centre for Crime and Justice Studies]], tweeted a "Rod Liddle decision tree" which described Liddle as a "wind-up merchant".<ref name="Plunkett"/><ref>Tomas Javinda [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/rod-liddle-criticised-for-describing-death-of-nelson-mandela-as-famous-nice-black-man-dies-8988549.html "Rod Liddle criticised for describing death of Nelson Mandela as ‘famous nice black man dies’"], ''The Independent'', 6 December 2013</ref>