Fun times for climate change - the BBC
From the
London Daily Mail:
BBC's six-year cover-up of secret 'green propaganda' training for top executives- Pensioner forces BBC to lift veil on 2006 eco-seminar to top executives
- Papers reveal influence of top green campaigners including Greenpeace
- Then-head of news Helen Boaden said it impacted a 'broad range of output'
- Yet BBC has spent more than �20,000 in legal fees trying to keep it secret
The BBC has spent tens of thousands of pounds over six years trying to keep secret an extraordinary �eco� conference which has shaped its coverage of global warming, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The controversial seminar was run by a body set up by the BBC�s own environment analyst Roger Harrabin and funded via a �67,000 grant from the then Labour government, which hoped to see its �line� on climate change and other Third World issues promoted in BBC reporting.
At the event, in 2006, green activists and scientists � one of whom believes climate change is a bigger danger than global nuclear war � lectured 28 of the Corporation�s most senior executives.
And the cracks in the facade?
The BBC began its long legal battle to keep details of the conference secret after an amateur climate blogger spotted a passing reference to it in an official report.
Tony Newbery, 69, from North Wales, asked for further disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. The BBC�s resistance to revealing anything about its funding and the names of those present led to a protracted struggle in the Information Tribunal. The BBC has admitted it has spent more than �20,000 on barristers� fees. However, the full cost of their legal battle is understood to be much higher.
The BBC is a State-funded entity as is our own National Public Radio. They publish what the State tells them to publish. The State drives the agenda on these networks -- they are not independent.
Thank God for the Internet!
Posted by DaveH at January 12, 2014 11:44 AM