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Watching the BBC's newswatch?

makebbctruthful | 08.07.2013 13:59 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

The BBC's NEWSWATCH is supposed to be about getting the truth and the ethics into the output of the Corporation. But does the slot deliver what moral and ethical viewers expect it to?
Jimmy Saville is only the tip of the iceb erg of unaccountability on the BBC

Trying to contact the BBC's NEWSWATCH is like going through an ordeal.
They have a telephone number on their web site but if you call it, you hear a pre-recorded instruction from their presenter the award-winning journalist Samira Ahmed telling you to leave a message.
What message can you leave?
Especially if they have already ignored your emailed messages?
The NEWSWATCH format is very much constructed on the type of assumptions that are associated with what used to be called the "Eastern bloc” regimes.
Raymond Snoddy, who had been first launched on Channel 4 during the days of that broadcaster as al almost promising holder of the powerful to account, managed to take NEWSWATCH down as far as he could do.
Now they have Samira Ahmed who is yet to show that she can make any difference and start the process of holding the BBC to account in a way that gives people the credible evidence that the Corporation can be trusted to stand up for values that Society needs but has been denied on matters that matter.

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Display the following 5 comments

  1. Watch BBC when sober — makeindymediaactive
  2. Contact info — Insider
  3. BBC's lack of coverage on Sri Lankan genocide, esp now in run-up to Commonwealth — markibrown
  4. BBC's Executive-Opposition Bias — Simon
  5. Greg Dyke has a lot to answer for too — DefamedbyBBC

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