UKNM: Re: The BBC are losing the plot....

[rukhsana]

I read the Razorfish piece - so true - if it is that easy to get a self

promoting

press release printed can we all send one in?


There isn't a tiny bit of newsworthy 'news' within it - and no mention of

any

other agencies who are probably all feeling the effects of the dotcom rush.

What happened to balanced reporting?


rukhsana <adding to the rant>


http://www.olivemedia.co.uk

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On 17 Apr 00, at 15:58, UKNM Digest wrote:


> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:21:21 +0100

>

From: "Chris Meachin" <cmeachinagency [dot] com>

> Subject: UKNM: The BBC are losing the plot....

>

> 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.st

> m) 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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