Tuesday 24 October 2017

The BBC apologises


The BBC has apologised for a breach of impartiality and accuracy on the Today programme.

BBC complaints director Colin Tregear wrote to one of the complainants saying, "I hope you’ll accept my apologies, on behalf of the BBC, for the breach of editorial standards you identified". 

So can you guess what the BBC is apologising for?

I won't spoil it for you by giving you the answer...cough, cough, Lord Lawson, climate change cough, cough...You'll have to click on this link to the Guardian to find out.

6 comments:

  1. Comparable to the grovelling apology over allowing Quentin Letts a modicum of free speech to give his views on the Met Office.

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    1. Yes, it's just about the only subject area where the BBC actually seems comfortable apologising.

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  2. Along with the brickbats, I'd like to send a bouquet...well to Carrie Gracie, rather than the BBC. A true democrat, she told us clearly (this is pretty much verbatim) that Xi Jiping aims to have himself sitting on top of the Chinese Communist Party, to have the Party sitting on top of the Chinese people, and to have the Chinese people sitting on top of the world. Very honest appraisal that it is rare to hear these days of deference to dictators and disparagement of democrats.

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    1. A well-deserved bouquet. She had a good line too about every election in the Chinese Communist Party coming "with a silent S on the front".

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    2. You've got me there...silent S??? Mind you, it is too early in the morning for me, so maybe I am just being a bit slow.

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    3. No, I should have quoted her in context. She was saying that every 'election' is actually a 'selection'.

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