BBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\nThis controversy has created a challenging atmosphere on British television. Still, it has shown the commitment of the BBC to report without reservation, regularly and very objectively, on the development of the situation. What does it look like in the practice of this public broadcaster? When reporting on themselves, including on topics that threaten its reputation, BBC News journalists treat the BBC in the same way as any other organization they report on, which means they approach BBC management and the press office with requests for official comments and interviews as it is a third person. Additionally, they \u201cjump\u201d their managers for unanticipated statements in pursuing information, just like they would any other person. However, if journalists are offered interviews with the BBC management, they are more careful in those situations because they know their coworkers, and the public will scrutinize their work with mistrust.<\/p>\n
On the current scandal, you can find a number of reports on the BBC News website, with different experts and from different angles. It goes so far that the public broadcaster sent its readers push notifications about the development. The TV program also regularly discussed this topic, and various guests were invited to the studio. You can also watch numerous reports on this topic on its YouTube channel. All this results from the official stance that as a public service the citizens of Britain trust and pay for, it must do its job professionally. However, one aspect of this case upsets me (proving that things can\u2019t be flawless). On the BBC news portal, this topic is placed in the \u201cEntertainment & Arts\u201d web section, which is a little unsettling considering what it is about, and it certainly does not belong to entertainment or art.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, more information on the reporting for BBC News is becoming available. According to other media outlets, the BBC\u00a0journalists looked into Edwards before the tabloid ran its initial story. All employees did not approve of this because some felt it was improper to look into a co-worker. However, the \u201craised eyebrow\u201d of some did not deter other journalists from continuing their inquiry, and when \u201cThe Sun\u201d published its report, BBC News already had the data it had acquired. Furthermore, despite the fact the police said they found no evidence of a criminal act, the BBC reported on the existence of two colleagues to whom the presenter had sent inappropriate messages.<\/p>\n
In summary, the BBC ran a demonstration exercise to show how to perform the job professionally during the most challenging times. However, despite its professionalism, a significant portion of the British population, particularly the younger generations, opposes having to pay a mandatory fee for this public service, and it will be interesting to see how this media company continues its job over the coming decades. Younger generations are switching to streaming services and digital media because they feel that the BBC is outdated and shouldn\u2019t be subject to different\u00a0rules compared to other\u00a0media.<\/p>\n
Finally, it is important to mention that the British tabloid \u201cThe Sun\u201d deviated from its regular practice of explicitly, and this time, it did not publish the host\u2019s name. The reasons why it was kept secret are unknown, whether the\u00a0tabloid acted on the advice of its legal department or there was something else. Still, we have to notice the difference in the behavior of one of the most controversial tabloids in the world.<\/p>\n
On the whole, a very British way\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Katarina Arambasic-Pivic Photo: Pexels\/Brett Jordan July 14th, 2023 The BBC is not the first media company to find itself at the center of a scandal due to allegations against its presenter. Every now and then, we witness similar situations, as recently the British ITV had problems of the same nature. What distinguishes the BBC\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[77,78,65,85,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communiko.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communiko.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communiko.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communiko.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communiko.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communiko.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4586,"href":"https:\/\/communiko.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/4586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communiko.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communiko.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communiko.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communiko.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}