{"id":261182,"date":"2016-08-11T14:57:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=261182"},"modified":"2016-08-11T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:57:16","slug":"bbcs-blatant-bias-against-climate-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/bbcs-blatant-bias-against-climate-skeptics\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8217;s blatant\u00a0bias against climate skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News needs to do more to push back against inaccurate scientific statements made by celebrities, according to a report by the governing body of Britain\u2019s public broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC Trust said BBC News\u2019 science coverage has caused audiences \u201cconsiderable frustration\u201d when anchors didn\u2019t push back against claims made by celebrities, politicians and other prominent figures.<\/p>\n<p>The Trust specifically singled out one\u00a0instance where Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson was allowed to make \u201cinaccurate statements\u201d in an interview without being challenged, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/08\/10\/bbc-let-emma-thompson-get-away-with-inaccurate-climate-change-cl\/\">according to The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a September, 2015, episode of \u201cNewsnight,\u201d Thompson said if oil companies \u201ctake out of the earth all the oil they want to take out, you look at the science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/08\/11\/bbc-struggles-to-contain-inaccurate-reporting-after-banning-climate-skeptics\/\">BBC Struggle To Stop Inaccurate Reporting On Climate Science | The Daily Caller<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News needs to do more to push back against inaccurate scientific statements made by celebrities, according to a report by the governing body of Britain\u2019s public broadcaster. The BBC Trust said BBC News\u2019 science coverage has caused audiences \u201cconsiderable frustration\u201d when anchors didn\u2019t push back against claims made by celebrities, politicians and other prominent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}