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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 theluggage on Wednesday July 09 2014, @06:01PM

    by theluggage (1797) on Wednesday July 09 2014, @06:01PM (#66636)

    that's because those sources don't have the incentive to over-emphasize such stories that the BBC does.

    You may have just heard a loud 'whooshing' noise. Sorry, I always forget to use the the irony tags.

    Clue 1: who owned the paper at the centre of the story?

    Clue 2: who owns those 'other sources' that I mentioned?

    I would be very unsurrpised at a private company that, after firing its CEO or in the middle of an internal struggle whether to fire its CEO, publishes something saying how bad it is to be run by that CEO.

    Name two (cases in which the deposed CEO was locked up for kiddy fiddling or was last seen heading for the Bahamas with the pension fund don't count).

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  • (Score: 1) by Jiro on Wednesday July 09 2014, @09:04PM

    by Jiro (3176) on Wednesday July 09 2014, @09:04PM (#66724)

    Name two

    http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304203304576448291349364376 [wsj.com] (Dow Jones publishes the Wall Street Journal)

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/business/media/jill-abramson-being-replaced-as-top-editor-at-times.html?_r=0 [nytimes.com]