{"id":605,"date":"2007-09-20T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2007-09-20T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T17:55:00","slug":"play-our-new-game-bbc-moral-equivalence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/09\/play-our-new-game-bbc-moral-equivalence\/","title":{"rendered":"Play our new game: BBC moral equivalence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">M<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ark Thompson<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=7208631315808962268&amp;postID=7343290690872205541\">writes<\/a> about trust in the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BBC<\/span>. After condemning the children\u2019s programme editor who apparently believed a poll had been rigged and <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,2173646,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">changed the name of a cat<\/a> (yes, really), Thompson lets off senior BBC manager <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,2163918,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=4\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Yentob<\/a> for filming reaction shots to interviews he didn\u2019t actually show up for. Yes, according to the D-G, filming yourself nodding to non-existent interviewees doesn\u2019t represent <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">\u201cany kind of bad faith or conscious effort to deceive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>How <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">bad<\/span> does bad faith have to be? Was it unconsciously deceptive? We know Thompson thinks what Yentob did is wrong, because a couple of paragraphs after absolving him of any blame, he says: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>it\u2019s my view that noddies and actuality questions should only be included if they formed part of the original interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I worked for the BBC, my moral compass would need re-magnetizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Thompson writes about trust in the BBC. After condemning the children\u2019s programme editor who apparently believed a poll had been rigged and changed the name of a cat (yes, really), Thompson lets off senior BBC manager Alan Yentob for filming reaction shots to interviews he didn\u2019t actually show up for. Yes, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,265,275],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-bbc","tag-journalism-values","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}