WILLYTHEWINO wrote:Don't care much one way or the other TBH but the BEEB did ban the Millennium Prayer
No, it did not. If it had, I would never have heard the song. As stated further up this thread, the BBC as an organisation does not ban things. Producers, editors and channel controllers make decisions about programme content. Different individuals make different judgments.
Moderne wrote:Did the BBC win 'Scoop of the Year' for their piece on Cliff's house being raided?
No, it did not. The Royal Television Society award for Scoop of the Year went to BBC Northern Ireland for a documentary in which a Irish republican had the guts to speak out against the IRA, with far-reaching effects.
As I have said elsewhere, I was working in the BBC Newsroom at the time of the Cliff story breaking. It was a widespread view among my colleagues that the helicopter stunt was over the top and offensive. Somebody overreached himself and let us all down. We believe in responsible journalism: fair, accurate and impartial. If it set out to be anything else, we wouldn't work there.
