What BBC’s Panorama got wrong on GMOs

http://www.gmwatch.org/news/latest-news/16221-what-bbc-s-panorama-got-wrong-on-gmos

The BBC’s lack of journalistic and scientific rigour hits new depths. Claire Robinson reports

BBC’s Panorama programme on GMOs, which was aired in the UK, has rightly attracted derision for its outrageous pro-GMO bias. Presenter Tom Heap ignored or skated over every major controversy about GM crops and gave a free ride to a handful of rabid GMO proponents. 

Cultivating Myths – The Pro-GMO Bias of the BBC

http://beyond-gm.org/cultivating-myths-the-bbc-pro-gmo-bias/

The pro-GM bias of the BBC was plain to see during Monday’s (8th June) Panorama programme.

Blinkered and narrow rather than panoramic, selective and prejudicial rather than investigative, this sorry display set a new low for a programme which was once a flagship of investigative journalism.

It had no more veracity and insight than the most clichéd corporate press release and the result was that a mix of myths, deceptive assertions and inaccurate statements by pro-GM lobbyists – including those masquerading as independent scientists – were given a free ride and promotional slot on prime time television.

It’s tempting to say that you couldn’t make this stuff up – except Panorama has proven with its latest fiction that actually you can – and that you can even get the BBC (and thus the licence fee payer) to pay for it.