From the Wikipedia entry on Daniel Okrent:
He is known for coining “Okrent’s Law” during his tenure as a comment he made about his new job. It states: “The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true,” referring to the phenomenon of the press providing legitimacy to fringe or minority viewpoints.
John Lloyd has a piece in today’s FT about “Bias and the Beeb”. Part of it involves quotes from BBC types saying - in more or less sophisticated fashion - “Gosh, impartiality is difficult these days”. True, it is. But I disagree with the way the problem is framed.
The Bridcut report is about “examining impartiality […]
The BBC announced today a review of its coverage of business. The review - which follows previous reviews of coverage of the European Union and the Middle East - will be conducted by a panel of six of the ‘great and the good’, and forms part of the new Trust’s ongoing Impartiality Project.
These […]
This is London takes up this story about the BBC’s ‘impartiality summit’. The paper’s spin is that the summit was an admission that the BBC is ‘biased’. In particular, “the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism”.
If the minutes of the meeting are accurate, and […]
Luttazzi: non mi vuole neanche la Rai di sinistra - La Stampa Web: Daniele Luttazzi, persona non grata at Rai ever since Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘editto bulgaro’, has this to say about the politics of satire:
“The satirist must be interested in who is in power: who is there is there. The right argues that the satirists […]
