When balance is bias | BMJ
►http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d8006
BBC journalists, in their quest for objectivity and impartiality—entirely understandable aims in coverage of politics and arts—risked giving the impression in their #science reporting that there were two equal sides to a story when clearly there were not. As Jones says, “There is widespread concern that [the BBC’s] reporting of science sometimes gives an unbalanced view of particular issues because of its insistence on bringing in dissident voices into what are in effect settled debates.”
#journalisme : l’#astrologie, l’#homéopathie ou les #anti-vaccins méritent-ils un espace « équilibré » sur la BBC ? ou faut-il une autre règle d’"équilibre" qui prendrait aussi en compte le sérieux ("due weight") ?