Aficionados of the BBC's Corrections and Clarifications page have been treated to five new specimens this week.
The oddest one is the Andrew Marr correction at the bottom of this post. Why on earth did it take 11 months to correct that?
The most striking one is the George Floyd one, because it's a lapse in journalistic accuracy that they've made before, for it's not the first time that the BBC's been forced into 'correcting and clarifying' that the police officers involved in his death weren't all white. (Two out of four were non-white). This is surely a classic case of BBC groupthink in action, leading to false and inaccurate reporting.
News at SixBBC One and BBC News Channel, Friday 26 February 2021We reported Alex Salmond had said Nicola Sturgeon had broken the ministerial code and that he thought she should resign in his evidence to a Scottish Parliament Inquiry.In fact Mr Salmond did not say that the First Minister should resign; he told the Inquiry “I've got no doubt that Nicola has broken the ministerial code but it’s not for me to suggest what the consequences should be”.03/03/2021World at One, Tuesday 2 February 2021We said Israel had vaccinated 5 million people with the Pfizer jab and that a million of these had had two doses.In fact, more than 5 million doses of vaccine had been given to Israeli citizens. Over 3 million people had received the first dose of the vaccine at that point and over 2 million the second.01/03/2021Midday BulletinBBC Radio 4, 6 February 2021We reported that it was the 70th anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the throne. As the Queen acceded the throne in 1952, this was in fact the 69th anniversary.01/03/2021BBC News Channel, Friday 23 July 2020We referred to George Floyd’s death as occurring during an encounter with white police officers. The officer who knelt on his neck is white, but two of the other three involved are not.01/03/2021Andrew MarrBBC One, 19 April 2020We referred to the Black Death, which it’s estimated killed millions of people in medieval times, as a virus. In fact it was a bacterial infection.01/03/2021
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