Friday, February 27, 2009

BBC accused of pandering to infotainment in its newspaper review

An interesting point of view about the many paper reviews that the BBC gives during the day.

It comes from Jim Dodd writing at Labour Home and he asks

as the BBC has a responsibility (as set out in its mission statement) to “inform, educate and entertain”.


why does it insist on reviewing the tabloid papers which are according to

are part of the entertainment remit
and that

No reasonable person believes any of those “newspapers” are reasonable, credible or reliable sources of information - certainly insofar as that information is presented to fit a sensationalist, commercial or predetermined agenda.


Incidentally besides the usual culprits he includes the Daily Mail as part of the tabloid family

2 comments:

Martin Belam said...

Surely there would be something rather odd about doing a newspaper review which didn't include the best selling titles, on the grounds that politicians didn't think they were 'serious' enough?

Nigel Barlow said...

Agree,a totally ridiculous proposition Martin