Monday - July 13, 2009

GORBALL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE THE LEFT AND ONE PO’d NEWSMAN SAYS ENOUGH TO BBC NEWS & QUITS

Just a touch of background. Peter Sissions is a newsman of many years and has worked for more then one outlet.

After being shot in both legs in 1968 while covering the Biafran War he was left less mobile and became industrial correspondent then industrial editor, reading headlines part-time. His first role as full-time anchor was for ITN’s News at One in 1978.

Here’s part of what this veteran newscaster wrote in the Sunday Mail.

One of the links on their site unfortunately isn’t working and I’ve spent the better part of an hour and a half trying to gather his stuff together and also copy from the paper some of what he said.  Wasn’t easy for me but it’s well worth the trouble.

Peter Sissons: BBC standards are falling - and bosses are too scared to do anything about it.

By Mail On Sunday Reporter
12 July 2009

Peter Sissons, the veteran newsreader who announced his retirement last month, has launched a withering attack on the BBC - claiming standards have fallen and accusing producers of being too mired in political correctness to do anything about it.

He says: ‘At today’s BBC, a complaint I often heard from senior producers was that they dared not reprimand their subordinates for basic journalistic mistakes - such as getting ages, dates, titles and even football scores wrong - it being politically incorrect to risk offending them.’

The 66-year-old also pinpointed the exact moment he decided to leave BBC News as the day senior producers attempted to stop him asking Labour’s then deputy leader, Harriet Harman, why the Queen had not been invited to the D-Day commemorations in May.
‘The most senior of the producers asked me directly what other issues I would raise with Miss Harman.
No problem, until I mentioned the last question I wanted to get in: why the Queen had not been invited to the 65th anniversary commemoration of D-Day. The response shocked me. It was suggested that it was not a topic worth raising because it was only a campaign being run by the Daily Mail.’
However, the topic had angered veterans and the campaign had gathered huge public support.

The presenter went ahead and asked the ‘obvious and important question’.
‘I drove out of Television Centre for the last time a month later, with not a pang of regret,’ he wrote in the Mail on Sunday.
His withering attack did not stop there. He went on to address the corporation’s view on global warming. He claims

It is ‘effectively BBC policy’ to ignore climate change sceptics.

He also claims it is now ‘effectively BBC policy’ to stifle critics of the consensus view on global warming. He says: ‘I believe I am one of a tiny number of BBC interviewers who have so much as raised the possibility that there is another side to the debate…

‘The Corporation’s most famous interrogators invariably begin by accepting that “the science is settled”, when there are countless reputable scientists and climatologists producing work that says it isn’t.

‘But it is effectively BBC policy… that those views should not be heard.’

The leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, went into the studio at Westminster to be interviewed by me.  She clearly expected what I call a “free hit” to be allowed to voice her views without being challenged on them.

I pointed out to her that the climate didn’t seem to be playing ball at the moment.  We were having a particularly cold winter, even though carbon emissions were increasing. Indeed, there had been no warming for ten years, contradicting all the alarming computer predictions.

Well, she was outraged.  Miss Lucas told me angrily that it was disgraceful that the BBC- the BBC! - should be giving any kind of publicity to those sort of views. 

Politically the argument may be settled, but any inquisitive journalist can find ample evidence that scientifically it is not.

SOURCE

Posted by peiper     on 07/13/2009 at 09:12 AM   
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