Mark Pack

BBC decides news reports should be true after all

By | Sat 25th October 2008 - 2:10 pm

Back in September I blogged about how the BBC was taking the view that it didn’t matter if one of its news stories wasn’t accurate; being amusing was a good enough excuse to cover getting the facts all wrong.

Good news now though: the BBC has ruled on a complaint over its story and decided that, after all, a news story should be accurate.

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One Comment

  • Terry Gilbert 25th Oct '08 - 4:00pm

    And the relevance of all this to the Lib Dems, Mark, is presumably that Cllrs were refuting opposition claims that Lib Dem controlled authorities were as unhappy as the BBC appeared to have claimed?

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