Wednesday, 1 April 2015

"This programme has been edited since broadcast"


We were discussing on a previous thread the BBC's use of the phrase, "This programme has been edited to correct a factual inaccuracy." 

One of the striking things about that phrase is that it doesn't actually spell out which "factual inaccuracy" has been "corrected".

Viewers (or listeners) might well be left completely nonplussed by it. 

It doesn't seem as helpful as it should be, and doesn't quite make amends as it should. 

By coincidence...

This morning's Today has been unavailable to 'listen again' to for most of the day. Usually it's available to re-hear within an hour of broadcast (i.e. before 10 am) but today it's only become available within the past hour or so, and I was wondering why.

This programme has been edited since broadcast.
As to the reason behind why it's been re-edited, and why there's been a 7-8 hour delay in making the programme available online, well, the BBC is clearly choosing not to say.

They haven't even put an explanation on today's Today webpage. 

Was it another "factual inaccuracy"? Some failing of election-related impartiality? Who knows!