A BBC News slant on the Mosley case.
I think it likely that somewhere within its charter, the BBC is required to deliver news bulletins that are factual and impartial.
Nevertheless, Adam Parsons, signing off his report for Radio 4 Six O’Clock News on yesterday’s [10/7] events at the Mosley v. Screws case, opined that the case might yet set a precedent “ .. in the way high profile individuals are allowed to go about protecting their privacy,” as if this were an unsavoury ambition that applied only to the rich.
It would have been more accurate and therefore closer to the spirit of the BBC Charter to phrase it thus: “.. in the way members of the public are able to protect their privacy from unwarranted media intrusion.”
It is symptomatic of an ingrained BBC didacticism that they feel they have the right to impose a BBC slant, in the same way that they impose presenters who possess no special qualities but fulfil some perceived quota, when there is no obvious public demand for them – Eamonn Holmes springs to mind, and Stephen Nolan, a cantankerous and inept radio journalist who’s shipped over from Belfast to do weekend stints on Radio 5. The BBC appears to believe that our exposure to these substandard broadcasters is in some way beneficial, instructive or edifying. It’s none of these and it’s certainly not enjoyable.
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I suspect he still has a job because he knows where the bodies are buried. 
Not much to write home about Neville? 
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Comment by wodnerfulforhisage on 11 July 2008:
The really important thing about Public Broadcasting is that is should be multicultural and multi accented. Do try and keep up.
It’s a pity Peter Sellars is ‘dead and gorn’. I’d love to hear him do a ‘goodness gracious me’ Ulster accent.
Comment by Peter on 14 July 2008:
As it happens, I’ve taken down any accent refs, but my objection to Nolan’s voice is based on aesthetics only. No one could object to the soft vowels of County Cork or the gently rolled ‘r’s of the English West Country. But the harsh grating noises of Belfast diction are inescapably unattractive and don’t make for good radio voices, but the BBC seesm to think it’s good for us to hear them. And Nolan has other, more irritating traits – have a listen.