This article is entirely uninteresting. I only stumbled across it by chance. But one thing about it did excite me: at the bottom there is the following statement:
An earlier version of this story mistakenly suggested that British programmes were responsible for 53% of global television output. The figure actually relates to the increase in sales of British format ideas.
So what you might say. The BBC made a mistake, happens every day. So what? The BBC made a mistake and acknowledged it, instead of simply changing it and airbrushing the mistake out of history.
Is this a one-off or a change in policy? I’ve not noticed any other acknowledgements like this.
It may be sad to get excited by this, but the BBC’s practice of maintaining they are always right, at all times, even when they are totally wrong, is one of the main things that enrages me about it. I’m delighted that after all the Stalinist airbrushings, we are finally starting to see a chink of glastnost.
See also Mark Pack’s take on bloggers’ reporting standards versus traditional media.
The BBC won’t change until the Common Purpose commissars and apparatchiks who have infiltrated the BBC get the boot.
Keep taking the pills.
This post was also very uninteresting.
When it comes to uninterestingness, you are the unchallenged expert, so I will bow to your superior, uninteresting opinion.