BBC Staff told to stop giving false balance.

Good news, if true. The BBC is telling its staff to avoid giving a platform to discredited beliefs in the name of balance.

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BBC journalists are being sent on courses to stop them inviting so many cranks onto programmes to air ‘marginal views’ The BBC Trust on Thursday published a progress report into the corporation’s science coverage which was criticised in 2012 for giving too much air-time to critics who oppose non-contentious issues. The report found that there was still an ‘over-rigid application of editorial guidelines on impartiality’ which sought to give the ‘other side’ of the argument, even if that viewpoint was widely dismissed.

via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1IQ76vh