We must have more of this from the media. We must no longer permit them to feed ignorance just to show balance or unbias in reporting. When something is undeniably true and proven beyond a shadow of a doubt we expect the media to stop letting guest lie and thereby feeding lies. Regardless of what Todd of NBC said it is the medias responsibility to not let guests go unchallenged when lying. 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. Some 200 staff have already attended seminars and workshops and more will be invited on courses in the coming months to stop them giving ‘undue attention to marginal opinion.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 02:13:55 +0000
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