Isn't news suppose to be new?

I've mentioned a couple of times now the notable repetition by the BBC of the the Amnesty International charge about "gulags". But what I hadn't noticed was this.

From the previously mentioned article about Dick Durbin, posted by the BBC on June 22:

Recent critics of the high-security detention centre at Guantanamo include former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, who has called for its closure.

Amnesty International has branded the camp "the gulag of our times".

But US Vice-President Dick Cheney says there are no plans to close the prison, and describes the detainees as "bad people" and "hardcore".

Many of the 500 men held at the camp have been there for three years without trial.

And this, from a different, earlier article on a Bill Clinton interview, posted on June 20.

Recent critics of the high-security detention centre at Guantanamo include former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, who has called for its closure.

Amnesty International has branded the camp "the gulag of our times".

But US Vice-President Dick Cheney says there are no plans to close the prison, and describes the detainees as "bad people" and "hardcore".

Many of the 500 men held at the camp have been there for three years without trial.

In each instance the quoted sentences comprise the conclusion to the article. Could it be that this has become simply a boiler-plate tag line that the BBC automatically adds on to any story that mentions Guantanamo? In a slightly earlier incarnation, buried within an article rather than concluding it, we find this:

Several senators and former President Jimmy Carter have called for the military prison at Guantanamo Bay to be closed down.

More than 500 men are being held at the facility. Many have been there for more than three years without trial.

Isn't this beginning to have a a little bit of a "Four legs good! Two legs bad!" sort of ring to it?

BBC watchers, keep your eyes out for more.