{"id":2830,"date":"2010-02-23T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2010-02-23T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:05:28","slug":"bbc-accused-of-bias-in-euthanasia-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/23\/bbc-accused-of-bias-in-euthanasia-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC accused of bias in euthanasia debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC’s decision to broadcast Terry Pratchett’s speech on euthanasia tribunals is cited as evidence that the corporation is acting as an advocate on this highly emotional issue<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Care Not Killing Alliance accused the BBC of flouting impartiality rules and adopting a \u201ccampaigning stance\u201d in an attempt to step up pressure on the Government to legalise assisted suicide.<\/p>\n

The decision to broadcast Sir Terry Pratchett’s speech advocating “euthanasia tribunals” in full earlier this month was an example of unbalanced reporting, the alliance claimed. <\/p>\n

Lord Carlile, chairman of the alliance and the Government’s independent reviewer of terror legislation, has demanded a meeting with BBC bosses to seek answers over the \u201cbiased\u201d coverage.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC trust, the Liberal Democrat peer also raised questions over the corporation\u2019s failure to inform police that a veteran presenter had confessed to killing his lover on one of its programmes. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to Elizabeth for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BBC’s decision to broadcast Terry Pratchett’s speech on euthanasia tribunals is cited as evidence that the corporation is acting as an advocate on this highly emotional issue: The Care Not Killing Alliance accused the BBC of flouting impartiality rules and adopting a \u201ccampaigning stance\u201d in an attempt to step up pressure on the Government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,66,10,28],"tags":[271,496,243,217,162,101],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-health-science","category-liberty","category-media","tag-ethics","tag-euthanasia","tag-medicine","tag-rights","tag-socializedmedicine","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-JE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}