Thanks to Ryan for emailing me about this week’s Newswatch, and apologies to Ryan for not reading his email until now. Fortunately it’s all for the best as James Delingpole has already covered it.
Newswatch on Climate Change Coverage
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More here too http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2010/4/24/bbc-science-coverage.html
“BBC lectures us incessantly on climate change. So why did their bosses make 68,000 domestic flights in two years?”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268613/Every-night-BBC-lectures-climate-change-So-did-bosses-make-68-000-domestic-flights-years.html#ixzz0m5uGSdcy
Corporate hypocrisy is one of the greatest erosions to any rational environmental message.
One wonders how, in light of the above, the BBC views this from one of their favourite sons, when it suits, George Monbiot:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/01/13/flying-over-the-cuckoos-nest/
Does make the point about who seems to get to fly in quiet well.
35 ‘reporters’. Wow.
I do accept that educational qualifications need not be a deal-breaker, but one wonders how many of these, and those in editorial have, or have access to the mindset that can challenge a story properly.
And resist the temptation, or instruction to ‘enhance the narrative’. That’s before, as with anything, those up the editorial chain decide what stays in, gets dropped, or needs ‘help’.
What, precisely, is the definition of a ‘specialist at the BBC’?
Anyway, Fiona Fox ‘thinks it’s really good’. On Newswatch. At least she was not a sulky BBC bloke in a blazer saying exactly the same thing as they do every week.
As with any pretension of objectivity on the BBC, who chose her to speak on behalf of this topic? Maybe another, dissenting, voice was deemed not necessary on this occasion … ‘as you don’t always need folk to understand there is another view’.
But good she thinks Messrs Black and Harrabin are tops.
I am sure a view held by all.
This Fiona Fox?