Incoming links from bias-bbc-nose-rubbing

made me think someone thought it a bit cruel reminding the BBC Editors Blog about the Dame Pauline Neville-Jones broadside that they’ve conveniently excluded from their regular BBC in the news round-up since Monday.

Far from it though. In Bias, the BBC and rubbing noses Mick Fealty, blogging at the Telegraph, wrote:

Biased BBC is an excellent example of the practical application of blog software to good civic use. Indeed, I’m convinced that despite its critical premise, a large chunk of its readership is inside the Corporation. But there are also examples of good journalism that also ought to be highlighted.

Mick is right (on more than one count). Sometimes the BBC does deserve praise, and it’s not unknown for praise to come from Biased BBC. The problem of course is time – it’s difficult enough just trying to keep up with reports of BBC bias, let alone highlight the better things that the BBC does.

But that reminds me, BBC Editors Blog, can you please at least reply to me and other Biased BBC readers who’ve contacted you to remind you about the Dame Pauline article that you’ve chosen to ignore?

It’s not much to ask is it.

Even better would be if you did the decent thing and published a link to the article in the next BBC in the news section – there’s no reason not to is there? Dame Pauline, a highly respected former BBC governor, expressing her opinion about the BBC certainly sounds like BBC in the news to me.

P.S. Before you try to pretend that you don’t cover stories from the Sunday papers (“it was at the weekend, see”), you have before: see
here,
here,
here or
here (this one was on a Sunday even) for example, or that you don’t correct omissions, well, yes you do – see here for instance.

One thing that has changed since then of course is that readers (tellytaxpayers even) no longer have the option to comment on BBC in the news stories. Why is that?