TravellerBob wrote:kanga wrote:TravellerBob wrote:.. If not there's no petrol* so ..
* not a fact; a bbc lie.
citation link, please ..
They are wise not to outright say things demonstrably untrue, however they ensure the story about "fuel crisis" is a lead on their web and TV output and the rest is simply dumb people.
Every other industry has a duty of care to it's users, but the bbc just don't give a damn about direct or indirect effects or impacts of their stories,..
Anyways, this isn't about the the biased bbc, ..
.. except that it was raised, and not by me ..
Ah, so the complaint is now
not that there was a 'lie', but (my gist if I understand it) is that BBC bulletins led on the same domestic story as led every other UK TV, radio, and web news bulletin (although the BBC presentation was both more accurate, complete and nuanced than many of those others), because it (but not those others ?) might induce foolish people to behave foolishly, so the BBC (alone ?) should have suppressed or downplayed the story .. and this is somehow evidence of 'bias' ..
[Since it has been suggested: 'They are wise not to outright say things demonstrably untrue,' .. I do not recall BBC news (at least since the Hutton report) - TV, radio or online -
ever offering anything untrue without (on those very rare occasions) swiftly issuing a correction or clarification, or by adding a caveat about 'unverified sources' eg of amateur-shot footage. This is far from true of many other UK news sources, which is one reason why Sky (say) often appears to 'scoop' the BBC by getting a new story or development out first, running the risk and regularly being guilty of inaccuracies. Obviously, some people may find accurate news unwelcome, or believe that an unwelcome editorial choice of one story or aspect of it over another (however accurate) represents some bias; but to suggest deliberate mendacity seems to me to be a calumny. Other Forumites may, of course, disagree
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