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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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