Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Climate change sceptics should get less BBC coverage and be challenged 'more vigorously', corporation body will rule | Mail Online
Opponents of global warming should be given less coverage by the BBC than the climate change lobby, the corporation will rule.
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Following the overhaul, programme makers and broadcasters will be compelled to give less prominence to those who oppose the scientific communuity's majority view.

According to the Daily Telegraph, the report draws heavily on an independent review of BBC coverage by Steve Jones, a professor of genetics at University College London.

Pro Jones is understood to have cleared the BBC of any suggestion of bias in its programming.
A death knell to the BBC | ScottishSceptic
The idea that the BBC ever gave any coverage to the sceptical position is laughable.
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In short, the BBC has lost touch with its audience, it has lost credibility with its audience and this report that effectively gives a green light to the BBC hysteria over unscientific global warming will just increase the type of inward looking PC nonsense at the BBC which has led to a growing number of the British public now have no reason to have a BBC.
- Bishop Hill blog - Tinfoil hat time
OK, this is slightly tinfoil hat-ish, but look at this video of Sir David King speaking just after Climategate.

At about seven minutes, he speaks of the hacking being incredibly sophisticated, and mentions not only disclosure of data but accessing of phone records.

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