What’s the point of BBC guidelines when it comes to climate change? | Richard Black
by Richard Black from on (#GFNX)
Fact checking? Based on sound evidence? The latest Radio 4 episode of What's the point of ... the Met Office? not so much ignores the editorial guidelines as burns them to cinders
Quentin Letts, the Daily Mail diarist, sporadically regales BBC Radio 4 listeners with programmes that ask 'What's the point ...' of various national institutions. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the MCC and even the pub have come under his "witty but thought-provoking" gaze.
This week's offering purports to ask what is the point of the Met Office. But it actually poses a different question: What's the point of the BBC editorial guidelines?
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