Comments on: The BBC covers its own scandals; its rivals cover their tracks

By: doctorvee » I am so great being modest

doctorvee » I am so great being modest — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:23:09 +0000

[...] was certain that the featured post would be the one about the BBC. I was surprised to find out that it was actually the post about F1’s espionage malarkey. It [...]

By: Scottish Roundup » Blog Archive » Extremism, suspension and resignation, oh my!

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:19:34 +0000

[...] so) to nominate his own posts when someone else is fronting the Roundup, thinks that the BBC has handled the current controversy well compared with its commercial rivals. Bookdrunk notes that the Daily Mail was quick to attack the [...]

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:07:56 +0000

Or, “Blogger caught faking opposition to the BBC” scandal.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:50:44 +0000

Haha, no worries mate.

Words, damn pesky things.

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:45:55 +0000

Gary, I didn’t mean to make it look as though you were bashing the BBC. I was trying to find a way to link to your post, and that was the best I could come up with!…

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:15:07 +0000

Actually I agree 100% with you here mate, and that post wasn’t meant to come out bashing the BBC. I was more looking at how it could have happened (and as someone who works in radio, pre-recording your show, then opening up a competition is a big no no a very very stupid. That’s the one that worried me most. The rest, I’m honestly not that bothered about).

As far as I’m concerned I think the Beeb have been really honest and open, and long may that continue. And yes, I’d like a further look into the quiz lines you’ve been going on about for ages. They’re much more worrying that a panicked producer covering his tracks.

Beeb basher? Not at all. Beeb hugger? Mostly, yes.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:33:28 +0000

I was going to repeat what Craig said. When I found out exactly what BBC did, I was like “that’s IT?!?”. They don’t strike me as that bad (besides, with Children in Need/Comic Relief, surely the money goes to charity anyway? Who’d ask for it back?)

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:03:34 +0000

The thing I admire most about the BBC is that they have held their hands up and admitted their faults - rather than leaving the newspapers and rivals to dig around for the dirt.

I can understand how a producer with a show going out live might panic when it’s about to go belly-up because the phone system is knackered, but I can’t understand or find it acceptable that other companies are deliberately defrauding viewers with dodgy quizzes.

To me, the BBC’s faults aren’t even in the same league as that kind of behaviour.

By: Scaryduck

Scaryduck — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:47:30 +0000

Sky News, of course, were caught out spectacularly after airing a faked news report in which a war correspondent reported “live” from a submarine on an attack mission. The submarine, it turned out, was safely moored in its home port…

Fake competitions, or faked news? What’s more serious?