tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post2553500796811133444..comments2024-03-05T10:14:38.181+00:00Comments on CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST: Manipulating the Reformation - political bias at the BBC?Doundou Tchilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469682216179706743noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-35248362626830896162017-05-02T22:12:27.018+01:002017-05-02T22:12:27.018+01:00Reporting standards are slipping at the BBC as in ...Reporting standards are slipping at the BBC as in so many other places, frequently displaying (as in this case) the ignorance underlying the script. Seriously researched academic knowledge and understanding are being sacrificed on the altar of the glib summary and the smart remark. In a completely different field, Alan Turing's memory was horribly besmirched tonight at 6.30 in a cheap 'gag' about his work and his death by a comedian called Rob Newman. If Newman is at all familiar with Turing's ground-breaking work, and his posthumous legacy involving apologies from the Executive, and a pardon from the Monarch, he tossed it aside tonight in a disgraceful display of crass crowd-teasing. As I say, a very different sphere and yet I have the feeling that both episodes are evidence of similar corrosion of values at the BBC and elsewhere.A fan of Croatiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00941402011053346100noreply@blogger.com