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Media Hell is a project to expose
media fallacies.
It's a lazy person's guide to diabolical reporting.
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LATEST/
The BBC's top-level decisions on which news stories to cover,
and which to avoid, affect everything from BBC1 TV
to Ceefax. Headlines can give misleading impressions and,
as we've documented, the distorting effect can be dramatic.
More...
The BBC ran a headline story claiming massive levels of identity
fraud in the driving test system. We queried this with
the Driving Standards Agency and found that the BBC
were reporting flimsy speculation as fact. More...
Former Scotland Yard detective, John O'Connor, commented
that "this was a hopeless, incompetent terrorist attack
[...] so incompetent as to be almost laughable"
More at our blog...
BBC1's CCTV: You are Being Watched (8/5/07)
was advertised as a "documentary on the history of CCTV".
It looked to us more like an orgy of extreme and gratuitous
fearmongering over crime. More...
After the BBC upheld our complaint
on misleading crime coverage, we looked at BBC News
Online, and found a pattern of misreporting. More...
BBC and ITN are both guilty of recycling old "terror
scare" footage to create headline stories out of minor
reports. Two recent examples are the BBC1 coverage of the
court proceedings for the alleged 21/7/05 terror plot, and
ITN coverage of the alleged "Birmingham" terror
plot. More...
• Majority of super-rich pay no income
tax...
• One wage not enough to live on...
• BBC removed details of Director
General's pay...
• Gap between rich and poor wider
than ever...
• More news...
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