{"id":10570,"date":"2011-07-21T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T20:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10570"},"modified":"2011-07-21T16:58:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T20:58:54","slug":"bbc-sets-double-standard-for-global-warming-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10570\/bbc-sets-double-standard-for-global-warming-skeptics\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Sets Double Standard for Global Warming Skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Express reports<\/a> from the U.K. today that the BBC is taking a new approach to climate change skeptics: ignoring them outright. Here’s how the paper has it:<\/p>\n

THE BBC was criticised by climate change sceptics yesterday after it emerged that their views will get less coverage because they differ from mainline scientific opinion.<\/p>\n

In a report by its governing body, the BBC Trust, the corporation was urged to focus less on opponents of the \u201cmajority consensus\u201d in its programmes.<\/p>\n

It said coverage should not be tailored to represent a \u201cfalse balance\u201d of opinion if one side came from a minority group.<\/p>\n

… Although he found no evidence of bias in BBC output, he suggested where there is a \u201cscientific consensus\u201d it should not hunt out opponents purely to balance the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Needless to say, the BBC’s decision strikes at the heart of both scientific and journalistic integrity. These are two fields where it should be universally recognized that truth is not whatever the majority says it is. As long as the BBC is going to be playing this game, however, let’s make it a fair fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clearly, we should not expect to hear minority points of view on the following propositions, all of which are supported by the vast majority of economists<\/a>: Free trade is beneficial, the minimum wage is a job-killer, and outsourcing is a positive good. Since the experts have weighed in, we’re confident that the BBC will now get to work suppressing dissenters as a matter of civic hygiene. We look forward to their objectivity.<\/p>\n

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The Daily Express reports from the U.K. today that the BBC is taking a new approach to climate change skeptics: ignoring them outright. Here’s how the paper has it: THE BBC was criticised by climate change sceptics yesterday after it emerged that their views will get less coverage because they differ from mainline scientific opinion. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[572,26,562,154,205,2893,2894],"class_list":["post-10570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bbc","tag-climate-change","tag-economics","tag-free-trade","tag-global-warming","tag-minimum-wage","tag-outsourcing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10570"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10578,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570\/revisions\/10578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}