The BBC’s Nick Reynolds, currently working on guidelines for personal blogs of staffers, offers an insight into the skirmishes with the Biased BBC blog.
Biased BBC is the bane of many editors as it regularly criticises the Beeb, accusing it of all sorts of bias.
The article was published in the BBC’s inhouse magazine, Ariel, but Nick has posted the more than 1,000 words on his blog.
He urges the BBC to engage in a conversation with Biased BBC, even though:
In two years there’s only been one piece of BBC content highlighted by Biased BBC where I thought there was a real problem. There have been three or four where I have thought they might have half a point. But these have been sloppy journalism or poor phrasing, not bias. Considering the huge amount of web pages and other content that the BBC publishes, and that we’re human beings who sometimes make mistakes, not a bad record. Biased BBC proves its opposite; the BBC is not biased.
As Martin Belam adds in his take on the article, bias is very much in the eye of the beholder.
(Via Jemima Kiss at the MediaGuardian)
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in fact the BBC guidelines on personal blogs were finished some time ago and can be found here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/advice/weblogswebsites/
If Nick Reynolds thinks that in two years there’s only been one piece of BBC content highlighted by Biased BBC which he thought was a real problem then he really is biased!!!!!!!!!
Nick Reynolds is part of the problem not the solution.
The constant liberal dogma forced on the taxpayer by the BBC is a disgrace. Orwell could not have imagined it better!
Now Nick has published the blog guidelines, can he get round to publishing the Balen report?