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The Telegraph reports:
BBC journalists are being sent on courses to stop them inviting so many cranks onto programmes to air 'marginal views'.
The BBC Trust on Thursday published a progress report into the corporation's science coverage which was criticised in 2012 for giving too much air-time to critics who oppose non-contentious issues.
The report found that there was still an 'over-rigid application of editorial guidelines on impartiality' which sought to give the 'other side' of the argument, even if that viewpoint was widely dismissed.
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BBC to Stop Inviting Guests with Marginal Views to Discuss Non-Contentious Scientific Issues
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(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Dunbal on Sunday July 06 2014, @12:13PM
From the mainstream media? ROFL. Wouldn't it be funny if they applied this effort to try to appear impartial to I dunno, ACTUAL NEWS? It's clear there's a concerted effort to muddle, misdirect and turn black into white and day into night, and it's not only at the BBC. Division is, after all, political power.