Christopher Booker, Telegraph
Next January will see the 10th anniversary of
one of the most curious episodes in the history of the BBC. At a “secret
seminar”, many of its most senior executives met with a roomful of
invited outsiders to agree on a new policy that was in flagrant breach
of its Charter. They agreed that, when it came to climate change, the
BBC’s coverage should now be quite deliberately one-sided, in direct
contravention of its statutory obligation that “controversial subjects”
must be “treated with due accuracy and impartiality”. Anything that
contradicted the party line, from climate science to wind farms, could
be ignored.
The BBC Trust later
reported that the seminar had taken this momentous decision on the
advice of “the best scientific experts” present. Only years later, after
the BBC had spent tens of thousands of pounds trying to suppress the
identities of its “scientific experts”, did it emerge that they had been
nothing of the kind. The room had been full of rabid climate activists,
from pressure groups such as Greenpeace and Stop Climate Chaos."
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