July 20, 2011

BBC Gives Too Much Weight to Fringe Opinions

Ian Sample, Guardian


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The BBC is to revamp its science coverage after an independent review highlighted weaknesses and concluded that journalists boosted the apparent controversy of scientific news stories such as climate change, GM crops and the Read Full Article ››


TAGGED: media bias, science journalism

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