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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
Despite the Kelly affair, the BBC remains the most repected news service in the world.
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The BBC report that sparked the Kelly affair was essentially true and undoubtedly in the public interest. I hope the BBC would be respected
because of this report. It is unfortunate that the government out-manoeuvred the BBC, made the issue into an 'affair', and covered up its wrongdoings with an 'independent' inquiry, chaired by the
same man that helped clear British soldiers of the Bloody Sunday massacre, because the BBC's reputation did not deserve to be besmirched in that way.
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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
And I would disagree that it was "found to be the most pro-government news outlet" during the war. The Blair government consistently accused it of anti-government bias! How can you reconcile your assertion with the fact that the BBC report (that resulted in Kelly's breakdown) was an attack upon the government and an expose of the claim they "sexed up" the reports?
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"Many British academics believe now that the BBC was too sympathetic to the government's pro-war stance and that accusing it of an anti-war bias fails to stand up to any serious or sustained analysis. In three different academic studies by three distinguished institutions in the UK, the corporation appeared to have displayed the most "pro-war" agenda of any broadcaster in the two main areas of media coverage: information sources and news content."
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http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/op...ticleID=112220
In the run up to the war the BBC did question what was being put before it but once the war began that seemed to stop.
It's assumed that it was the pressure put on Dr Kelly as the affair grew that lead to his death. There was much discussion of that in the Hutton Inquiry and the BBC's report shouldn't be directly related to Kelly's breakdown.
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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
PS - Thanks to the link. Very interesting site.
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My pleasure.