The BBC - Quality of news articles...

Post by **jtaylor** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:27 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 975835.stm

Errors (non-exhaustive):-

For the British public, the drip-dip of casualties in Basra was suffered without an objective that was clear.

The difficulties of the Iraq operation has led to a falling out of allies, with two British general criticising the US plan for the occupation of Iraq as "intellectually bankrupt" and "fatally flawed".

Who's proof-reading this stuff??

J

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:42 pm

No-one?

Jeeves · Post by **Jeeves** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:50 pm

Wouldn't surprise me, the BBC are probably cutting costs by not employing anyone to proof-read their stuff.

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:10 pm

Me!!!! (well we all know my spelling and grammer when typing is diabolical so could be!)

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:51 pm

There has been plenty of condemnation of the BBC recently (for example the decision to pull the plug on a global warming programme because it could be viewed as biased) but I was really shocked to see what was listed as being on the Sky Parliament channel about 5.45 this morning:

Royal Opening of the Welsh Ass

The poor Queen - what will they have her doing next?

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:15 pm

With Prince Charles being the Prince of Wales, the mind boggles !