On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:57:18 +0100, Peter Duncanson wrote:

You seem to be ignoring the extent to which the BBC and other news media
are "steered" by press releases and PR people from various
organisations.

With cuts to the BBC budget and reduction in staff for news and current
affairs, the BBC is being gradually reduced to a service where they
just read out the press releases as facts because there are insufficient
staff to investigate and reasearch the story.