Jun 18 2007
Impartiality - the BBC gets it wrong.
The 12 guiding principles in the BBC impartiality report, published in today’s Media Guardian. Here’s number 7:
Impartiality is no excuse for insipid programming. It allows room for fair-minded, evidence-based judgments by senior journalists and documentary makers, and for controversial, passionate and polemical arguments by contributors and writers.
Impartiality “allows room” for informed opinion? Surely this should read impartiality requires informed opinion.
[BONUS LINK] Advertising - the BBC gets it right! - with their interactive billboard campaign. I wonder why the BBC are running this campaign in NYC? Could it be that they are aiming to grab some of the “30-minute average” visits that Nielesen/NetRatings somewhat implausibly claim for nytimes.com?
[BONUS LINK 2] Stirring post from the always insightful Steve Boriss declaring that “The BBC is Un-American“. He is confident that “Its biased, pro-government news will fare poorly in the States“.
[UPDATE 07/03/07] Several British newspapers are following the BBC’s lead - with the Guardian, the Independent, The Financial Times, the Daily Mail and othere reporting that their websites now receive more traffic from the US then the UK - via paidcontent.org
Or perhaps as Adrian Monck suggests it is part of a broader based oppurtunistic assault to capture a larger slice of the US media pie.
http://adrianmonck.blogspot.com/2007/06/bushs-misfortune-is-bbcs-opportunity.html
yes - but it’s been a difficult month for the nation’s newspaper of record.