BBC Newsnight interviews Peter Fincham following BBC apology

BBC Newsnight interviews Peter Fincham, Controller of BBC1, about the BBC's grovelling apology to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and photographer Annie Leibowitz for biased editing that appeared, wrongly, to show Her Majesty 'storming out of a photo shoot'. For more details see: biased-bbc.blogspot.com

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• BBC
• Newsnight
• Her
• Majesty
• Queen
• Elizabeth
• bias
• apology
• Annie
• Leibovitz

[madkaffir]

It weren't there fault....It was other media interpreting the presentation as real...

[BiasedBBC]

Watch the full BBC video - put ?v=qyUnXAG4doI on the end of a Youtube URL to see it. The BBC showed this fabrication to journalists to drum up press attention for their new series. The 'the Queen stormed out' lie was also covered big time by BBC News, before they realised what they'd done and had to issue their grovelling apology! Bunch of amateurs!

[madkaffir]

I wouldn't be surprised if you work for Sky or something...Because BBC is funded by the public it is far more balanced than any television channel funded by big business...It has a board of directors to maintain neutrality...What is your politics?

[BiasedBBC]

I don't work in the media. My politics are mainstream. Not of that that is any of your business.

[johnpaulwinters]

You should see the BBC website story:

Wikipedia 'shows CIA page edits'

by Jonathan Fildes

In it, the BBC puts down the CIA and others for editing Wikis, but THEY omitted telling the full story. BBC employees edited Wikis to make political statements!

Sin 1: Editing Wikipedia to change George Bush's name

Sin 2: Not reporting that fact in a story where the BBC puts others down.

How could anyone trust what the BBC reports when they are guilty of deceptions like this?

[toptop90]

bollocks.you got your hands caught out.

[hugalove]

At least Peter Fincham's being as subversive as ever. Don't forget, this is the same Peter Fincham who worked on the production team for Chris Morris's "The Day Today" and "Brass Eye".

[jamesofengland]

If you decieve journalists and the journalists then pass on that lie to others, it seems difficult to understand in what sense you have not deceived the public. Now, while you may be right that it was the fault of journalists for trusting the BBC to not be lying, but do you not agree that there is a problem when journalists and others cannot trust the BBC not to be openly deceitful?

[madkaffir]

Let me remind the show was not produced by the BBC, neither was the advert presented to the World press...It was BBC accident not to first check the adverts for journalists...They check adverts for television...