BBC faked phone-in results
p2pnet news | tv:- If you can’t trust the BBC, who can you trust?
That’s a question being asked in households throughout Britain, today, as the BBC, short for British Broadcasting Corporation, the hallowed institution which has been informing people around the world for decades, admits it faked phone-in competitions on Children in Need, Comic Relief and Sports Relief.
But the BBC isn’t alone. Recently, Britain`s ITV had to chop its quiz channel ITV Play and suspend all premium-rate interactive services, text votes and red button interaction after being accused of faking results.
Channel 4 and Channel Five were in much the same boat.
Now, “THE BBC suspended several editorial staff over the phone-in scandal today as Scotland Yard revealed the Corporation may face a criminal investigation,” says the Daily Express.
“We can confirm that a small number of staff have been asked to step aside from their duties whilst we review issues surrounding the incidents referred to yesterday,” says a BBC statement quoted in the story.
An internal investigation was ordered after the BBC apologised to the Queen last week, also disclosing, “serious breaches of editorial standards involving a series of other phone-in shows,” says the Telegraph going on:
“In some instances production staff posed as competition winners. After the scale of the deceptions became clear, Mark Thompson, the director-general, immediately suspended all phone-related competitions on television and radio. Interactive and online competitions were also halted.
“The inquiry identified cheating on six television and radio programmes. The audit – of a million hours of output since January 2005 – followed the row over a BBC1 trailer that wrongly implied that the Queen stormed out of a sitting with the photographer Annie Leibovitz.”
Also See:
BBC isn’t alone – Britain`s `fixed` TV shows, March 9, 2007
Daily Express – BBC suspends staff over phone-in fiasco, July 19, 2007
Telegraph – BBC staff suspended over phone-in scandal, July 19, 2007
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