Tuesday, 27 January 2009

BBC, Gaza and Impartiality

It is noteworthy that the BBC is making a song and dance about impartiality as the reason for refusing to show an appeal from the DEC. Is there a link between the Ross affair, Gaza and Darwin? Clearly the BBC is a law unto itself.

It would seem that such impartiality doesn't extend to the Darwin day celebrations where the BBC sometimes doesn't even pretend to be balanced - as a recent radio 4 programme demonstrated by talking about creationists, not to them.

2 comments:

Chris Stadler said...

Is there a link to the BBC program you're referring to? I'd be interested in hearing the audio.

Anonymous said...

It was one of the programmes on Radio 4 late afternoon about Darwin with 3 Darwinists from Judaism, Christianity and Islam - somehow that makes it balanced when there were no opposing views.

‘Induction over the history of science suggests that the best theories we have today will prove more or less untrue at the latest by tomorrow afternoon.’ Fodor, J. ‘Why Pigs don’t have wings,’ London Review of Books, 18th Oct 2007