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BBC to Stop Inviting Guests with Marginal Views to Discuss Non-Contentious Scientific Issues

posted by azrael on Sunday July 06 2014, @10:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the flat-earth dept.

lhsi writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Sunday July 06 2014, @02:05PM

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Sunday July 06 2014, @02:05PM (#64854)

    I can't wait to read the vociferous condemnation of this policy by the members of the Flat Earth Society.

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  • (Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Sunday July 06 2014, @02:49PM

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Sunday July 06 2014, @02:49PM (#64866)

    in summary, this is what Brian Cox refers to as "a load of woo".