Comments on: BBC PC http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:23:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ken vs. the City » BBC’s published Israel-Palestine style guide http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-166131 Ken vs. the City » BBC’s published Israel-Palestine style guide Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:14:28 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-166131 [...] Read more… (via BuzzMachine) [...] [...] Read more… (via BuzzMachine) [...]

]]> By: Nick http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-163456 Nick Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:09:16 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-163456 Publicly funded organisations like the BBC should assume their job is to be open. However I understand the downside of revealing all. Should a reporter choose to deviate from guidelines to improve the way they communicate with the audience it may invite a maelstrom of criticism which is hard to defend. Prescribed language tends to become meaningless. Publicly funded organisations like the BBC should assume their job is to be open.

However I understand the downside of revealing all. Should a reporter choose to deviate from guidelines to improve the way they communicate with the audience it may invite a maelstrom of criticism which is hard to defend.

Prescribed language tends to become meaningless.

]]> By: kat http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-162815 kat Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:06:17 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-162815 Meanwhile, they try to hide the truth--that they are biased. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/15/nbeeb15.xml Meanwhile, they try to hide the truth–that they are biased.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/15/nbeeb15.xml

]]> By: Rich Banner http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-161656 Rich Banner Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:41:45 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-161656 @ Michael, Sarcasm....right? @ Michael,

Sarcasm….right?

]]> By: Michael Rosenblum http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-161613 Michael Rosenblum Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:14:13 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-161613 If only American news organizations were so thoughtful and so careful in their work. Do you think they agonize in the same way over stuff like this at Fox or Good Morning America? If only American news organizations were so thoughtful and so careful in their work. Do you think they agonize in the same way over stuff like this at Fox or Good Morning America?

]]> By: Kevin Marks http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-161589 Kevin Marks Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:35:54 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/10/14/bbc-pc/#comment-161589 <a href="http://epeus.blogspot.com/2006/10/bbc-and-insurgents.html" rel="nofollow">The BBC has been doing this for a while</a> George Orwell wrote in 1944: <blockquote>Nearly all human beings feel that a thing becomes different if you call it by a different name. Thus when the Spanish civil war broke out the B.B.C. produced the name "Insurgents" for Franco's followers. This covered the fact that they were rebels while making the rebellion sound respectable.</blockquote> The BBC has been doing this for a while
George Orwell wrote in 1944:

Nearly all human beings feel that a thing becomes different if you call it by a different name. Thus when the Spanish civil war broke out the B.B.C. produced the name “Insurgents” for Franco’s followers. This covered the fact that they were rebels while making the rebellion sound respectable.

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