Hello and welcome to the brand new Biased BBC site! It’s a revolution in design and I hope you will have a look around and settle in to this new look site.
Of course these things take a lot of work and that’s why my first responsibility is to express my sincere thanks to Geoff – he from All Seeing Eye – without whose enthusiasm, good humour and sustained effort this would not have been possible. I also want to publicly thank G.O.T. (Warning; sweary blog!) for his excellent and visionary work here. We owe these two fine gentlemen thanks for bringing this work to fruition and I doff my cap to both. This is also a work in progress so please bear with us as we finesse and complete. Now, to deal with the BBC…
Looks fine but too slow to load on my pda now.
Looks fine but too slow to load on my pda now.
Looks fine but too slow to load on my pda now.
Looks fine but too slow to load on my pda now.
It is definitely a big improvement, but I think we need to utilise the forums more.
The front page can be used to flag new instances of bias, but all posts should then link to the forums. This would be the best place for comments and archiving instances of bias. They would be easily searchable for earlier articles and comments and would allow users to post screenshots etc, to avoid BBC stealth editing.
I think we need to aiming for an indisputable archive of bias. I envisage something like this:
1) Each instance of bias has its own ‘thread’ in the forums, filed by genre – e.g. Middle East, Labour, Climate, etc
2) Each thread has a standardised initial post – e.g.:
2.1) Title
2.2) URL linking to BBC website or YouTube
2.3) Cut and paste of relevant BBC website content
2.4) Screenshot of offending material – this could be screenshot of BBC website or maybe google cache proving stealth edits.
2.5) Explanation of bias
3) After the initial posting, people could post comments, argue, etc.
This format would build up into an archive of thousands of instances of bias. It would also create a narrative and stories could cross link. Users would be able to find earlier comments and point new users and trolls towards juicy cases of bias. Extreme and clear-cut cases of bias could be made into stickies.
I know this is a work in progress, but I think it would be a really good direction to take the blog in.