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Subject: | UKNM: The BBC are losing the plot.... |
From: | Chris Meachin |
Date: | Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:00:58 +0100 |
Has anybody else noticed the BBC's increasingly bizarre, biased and
inaccurate reporting on new media and the internet?
Their recent article related to Razorfish
(http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_676000/676197.stm)
was nothing short of free advertising and contained many little gems which
approached the hilarious.
Another report about BT's floatation of Yellow Pages
(http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid%5F711000/711621.stm)
was quite amazing in it's inaccuracies: "The first unit to be floated on the
markets is the lucrative Yellow Pages directories and e-commerce business,
which will be renamed Yell."
Hmmm. Yell has existed for several years now and is a hugely well know and
successful site. How they missed that I'm not sure.
There have been a whole host of other half-truths, untruths and inaccuracies
over the last few months that have seriously undermined my confidence in the
BBC's ability to report anything without appearing naive, gullible and
ill-informed.
The authority with which BBC news presents itself only compounds matters:
Has the organisation that once defined objective news reporting finally lost
the plot? Is this new fangled 'internet' such a novelty to them that they
are blinded by it's complexity and overwhelmed to the point where they give
up and try making it up?
I only hope that the author of these pieces has now been safely returned to
the drama and fiction department where they certainly belong.
</rant>
Chris
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