Guardian: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners

But not the end he was thinking of ? [credit: wizbangblog.com]

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Is the Guardian suggesting it always adheres to climate accuracy, if there is such a thing? Anyway, more evidence here that ‘climate campaigners’ have no sense of humour. They don’t see any joke in claiming a few extra molecules of CO2 in the air is going to ruin your life or maybe end it, or whatever the latest manufactured scare may be. ‘Their’ media like the Guardian can promote all sorts of doom-laden claims, but critical or opposing stories should be disallowed because ‘IPCC says…’?
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The UK’s TV and radio regulator is allowing GB News and others to “flout” accuracy rules and broadcast climate change denial, say campaigners.

Instances cited include describing global heating as “the climate scam” and suggesting the government was going to introduce “enforced veganism”, says The Guardian (via News.iAsk.ca).

Ofcom has received 1,221 complaints related to the climate crisis [Talkshop comment – meaning the ‘alleged climate crisis’?] since January 2020, when its searchable database began. None resulted in a ruling that the broadcasting code had been breached. In fact, only two such breaches have been found since 2007.

More than 50 of the complaints were made by the campaign group Reliable Media about GB News programmes since March 2024. The group said the segments included false statements about climate breakdown that had either gone unchallenged or had failed to be balanced.

Ofcom assessed but did not pursue any of the complaints. The campaigners accused Ofcom of “effectively suspending its accuracy rules on this life-and-death issue”. [Talkshop comment: unsupported assertion as usual].

In contrast, the French regulator Arcom has found four broadcasting code breaches related to the climate crisis in the last two years.

In one, the rightwing channel CNews was fined €20,000 (£17,000) for a segment in which a speaker said climate change was “a lie, a scam”.

GB News said the campaigners were politically motivated and wanted to shut down public debate.

Full article here.
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