Friday, August 29, 2003
And that's the problem with BBC's (particularly) and everyone else's coverage isn't it? You can't expect the BBC to lead every, or even any, story with, "Questions Roil Around BBC Report's Claims..." The entire British (and others, of course) press is so incestuously involved reporting on each other and conflating their editorial slant with their news, none of them can be trusted to give reporting that coincides reasonably with objective reality. The news consumer is left to go themselves to primary sources like transcripts and the like.
Update: Take this BBC headline, for instance: Pundits divided over Campbell...Could you ever imagine a similar headline, "Pundits divided over BBC..." Of course, not, yet the BBC is as much a part of the story as any other player. Maybe more so.