BBC in row over doctored TV footage with Gordon Brown ("....made him look like a thug")

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | July 14, 2007 | SIMON WALTERS

[Stoat]

Although I'm guessing that this will surprise no one, it begs the question: "How many times has this sort of thing happened before, and simply was never caught or brought to light?"

Dan Rather would be proud.

[Tennessee Nana]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

We cant have any true-to-life pics or videos of PM Brown...

Not sporting, what?

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

The Beeb; just telling the lies the Islamofascists won’t tell.

[SandRat]

and how long before the “BEEB” gets its permit pulled by Parliament?

[BenLurkin]

OXYMORON - “journalistic ethics”

[Duke Nukum]

Newsnight editor Peter Barron has admitted that a sequence of events had been reversed in the film, but refused to apologise. BBC chiefs have defended the film as 'a cross between Louis Theroux and gonzo journalism'.

He went on to say, "We make the news, we don't report it, and I'll personally throttle anyone who has a problem with that!" /sarc

[TheBattman]

Sounds like the BBC is still taking journalism lessons from OUR press...

[bajabaja]

Even the BBC’s internal report found left-biased reporting, but that correcting such internally would be difficult. This newspaper report posits the motivation for “sexing up” the queen’s photo story and this PM Brown/”thug” story as possibly done to bolster ratings. The way to correct BBC bias is through competition, not any internal reform. Is Murdoch’s Sky TV making inroads on BBC’s previously captive audience?

[sageb1]

“There was no intention to deceive anybody.”

Then why did they do it?

[Nathan Zachary]

"Mr Brown's officials have complained to the Corporation about an 'unfair, unbalanced, unnecessarily personal, and disingenuous' film which they claim was altered in an attempt to make him look like a thug."

This is standard practice for the BBC. It's a rare occurance that they broadcast anything without altering the facts to fit their agenda.

They belong in prison and to have their broadcasting license revoked.

[BusterBear]

The BBC report comes over to me as rather supercilious, to say the least, towards Mr. Brown, whereas they appear to be quite sycophantic towards Mr. Cameron. Would this be because Mr. Brown is Scotch?

[mefistofelerevised]

I’ve got a feeling it just got impossible for the Don Johson(miami vice) wantabe to get any of the PM’s time. Waste of film.

[kalt]

Fake but inaccurate :)

[Northern Alliance]

Mr Brown's officials have complained to the Corporation about an 'unfair, unbalanced...

I wonder if any of the Fox people are gonna comment on that?

[Nova]

"How many times has this sort of thing happened before, and simply was never caught or brought to light?"

Sorry, but there's not enough fingers and toes in this country to count that for you.

[BallyBill]

Editing Clips and showing them out of order.

The Michael Moore school of film.

[Billthedrill]

BBC chiefs have defended the film as 'a cross between Louis Theroux and gonzo journalism'.

That isn't exactly a vote of confidence. Gonzo journalism isn't journalism at all. Hunter Thompsom was an entertaining fraud, but a fraud he was.

[FastCoyote]

“Hunter Thompsom was an entertaining fraud, but a fraud he was.”

Who blew his brains out with a shotgun, if I remember correctly.

[az_gila]

Remember the UK residents are paying $270 per year for a TV license fee per household to fund the BBC.

The other channels have to compete with the BBC with no license fee money... the people should expect accuracy and no bias... they sure are paying for it!!

[Stoat]

The Beeb; just telling the lies the Islamofascists won’t tell.

I assume that you are meaning to refer to "our honorable Muslim Friends who are engaged in a fully justified and entirely virtuous rise to defense against racist, Western aggressor nations."

(BBC definition of Islamofascist trash)