How informative, entertaining, and educational is saturation reporting of the Paris attacks? Is the BBC simply helping ISIS to build its distinctive, shock-value brand?
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The BBC’s Editorial Guidelines open with the words: “Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent, impartial and honest.” These glibly stated words emanate from a journalism culture that, in Pratap Rughani’s phrase, “prefers to see not a story but ‘the story’ as something self-evident rather than constructed.”
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