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18 July 2007. BBC gets Graded for Deceipt & 'Deliberate attempt to deceive'.
When the BBC gets chastised for not keeping it's own (Broadcasting)
house clean it can behave like a bunch of stroppy adolescents. But
this time they have pulled themselves in. Tonight at midnight all
phone-in based competitions have been pulled whilst the Culture &
Media Committee announced their intent to review not only the behaviour
of editorial staff on all phone-in competition but that the BBC's
16,000/17,000 strong workforce in all domains will be now obliged
to undergo a comprehensive set of training modules & seminars
— on honesty!
Michael Grade the former DG of the BBC and how head of the age-old
(1950's) terrestrial competitor ITV declared tonight that any of his
current staff found to be involved in efforts to mislead the public
would be 'shown the door'. I wonder if that will apply elsewhere to
higher-ranking editors and producers who edit the content of politically
sensitive programs?
Grade has been issuing a series of sometimes-mixed messages during
the day to various news channels like when interviewed for Channel4
TV news he stated, "the likes of YouTube & Wikipedia are
unreliable sources of information whereas we at the BBC are seen as
reliable & trustworthy." By Ten o'clock the same evening
whilst speaking on BBC's own Newsnight he seemed to have mellowed
his tones stating more reflectively, "There is a deliberate attempt
to deceive ... This is something I have never seen before (at the
BBC)."
This most recent statement detracts from the theme dwelt on all day
such that some of the corruption that has been taking place on the
named programs will have been due to outside contractors with many
trainee staff, working perhaps for free and certainly under great
strain in a highly competitive marketplace within the BBC, not understanding
the importance of the aforementioned 'standards'.
The current Director General of the corporation Mark Thompson has
stated "The BBC will not tolerate serious breaches of editorial
standards". Both men stake claim to 'our high standards' with
Thompson iterating that "Compliance with our standards is not
an option but an absolute necessity."
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