Funny how the BBC hasn’t given this more profile…
“MPs have demanded that the BBC reveals details of all commercial deals its journalists have with other organisations, amid fears of an increasing number of conflicts of interest affecting their work.
The Corporation is under pressure following The Mail on Sunday’s disclosure two weeks ago that senior BBC journalist Roger Harrabin, acting on behalf of the BBC, accepted £15,000 in grants from the University of East Anglia, which was at the heart of the ‘Climategate’ scandal, and then reported on the story without declaring this interest to viewers.
Roger Harrabin, the BBC’s ‘environment analyst’, used the money from the Tyndall Centre (which includes the University of East Anglia’s Centre for Climate Change Research) to fund seminars on behalf of BBC senior management in 2002-5. Mr Harrabin did not derive any personal financial benefit.”
Harrabin may not have derived any personal benefit from the cash, but clearly the Tyndall Centre got its money’s worth in influencing BBC reporting on the Climate Change agenda. How much influence do other organizations or activists have in this fashion? Is there the equivalent of political lobbying going on?
I wish that the feeding frenzy on News International would be redirected towards the real criminals in our country; namely, the guardian, trinity mirror group (or whatever the mirror calls itself these days) and the bbc. The slime that pervades our national psyche is being emitted by these socialist entities.
What is sauce for the goose… So how about you, David Vance, revealing how much money you have been paid by the BBC for your frequent appearances?
Do you work for the bbc?
As far as I know the only person getting money round here from the BBC is David Vance.
Do you think, in your case, it might be a matter of Stockholm syndrome?
Don’t be ridiculous Nick
Small fees for appearances on BBC TV or radio are standard practice.
But big dollops of cash for INFLUENCE are a totally different matter.
Quite right JA. Also, this is about the BBC, through Roger Harrabin, receiving money from an organisation with a clear agenda, not the BBC paying money to anyone, so why are the BBC’s payments to DV relevant?
Some definite good news at last against the Balen Report hiding cowardly bastards!
“Common purpose.” Modern day Masons. Get to the bottom of them and you will have the answer.
Conflict of interest? I should bloody well say so!
Leveson! Where the f*** do you think you’re going? Get back here and sort this out!
Hypocrisy of the highest order from ‘the broadcaster everybody trusts’.
Leveson was carefully set up to confine the enquiry to standards in the press, thereby evading any questions being asked about standards on the broadcast media. That is why the BBC have been pushing it with so much enthusiasm. By pushing their anti-Murdoch vendeta they were able to attack Sky News by association in the full knowledge that they were safe from having their own conduct investigated.
The BBC have many decades, in fact they have had over fifty years of practice, of scheming to destroy any form of alternative to their output, even doing their utmost to undermine the very first broadcast by Independent Television as long ago as the 1950s in the hope of frightening off the advertisers who were to provide their revenue source.
Backstabbing competitors is nothing new to the Beeb, they have perfected it to an art form, which, of course, conveniently hides their behaviour from Freedom of Information Enquiries.
‘far from making him more sympathetic to UEA, the sponsorship – of which the BBC had been aware – ‘made me doubly determined to investigate Climategate. If I had been misled by UEA I wanted to be among the first to know’.
Yes, history is simply littered with examples of folk being doubly determined to bite the hand that feeds them. Clearly.
The BBC leads the way in this, in no way screeching ‘conflict of interest’ the minute a bit of money can be connected with a person involved in the topic any protagonist’s money might be involved with.
Mind you, from Union funding Miliband to activist groups ‘research’, those they choose to hold to account seem often a smidge uni-directional.
What a total liar Harrabin is. He was part of the UEA whitewash – “nothing much to see here, move along”.
Total lies from Harrabin – he was part of the UEA cover-up, “nothing much to see here, move along”
No, I’m quite sure Harrabin really did want to know if he had been misled on the issue. So he asked his religious leader, who told him there was nothing to worry about, they’d never mislead him about the true faith. No problem, then.
Bit of good news, Norfolk Plod has given up trying to find the UEA email hacker.
He had even enlisted help from police anti-extremism and anti-terrorism units….wonder why.
I mean they, not he
Rumours at Oxford are this is going to lead to an investigation of the BBC’s coverage of Climate Change by a Parliamentary Committee. But I also think there is going to be another set of Climategate emails, that will embarrass the BBC. It will be a case that the politicians will blame the BBC for misleading them over Climate Change. Maybe the BBC would be advised to make a documentary about Cosmoclimatology without inserting any of the BBC’s Guardianista bias in the documentary.