From the WashingtonTimes.com:

BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal air time to climate change deniers

by Jessica Chasmer

The BBC’s governing body has ordered staff to stop giving equal air time to climate change deniers and other scientific experts with a “marginal opinion.”

The BBC Trust published a progress report analyzing the corporation’s science coverage and found it remains prone to “over-rigid application of editorial guidelines on impartiality” that resulted in the BBC giving “undue attention to marginal opinion,” The Telegraph reported.

The report’s author, Steve Jones, emeritus professor of Genetics at University College London, said man-made climate change was one area where too much weight had been given to unqualified critics, The Washington Post reported.

Some 200 BBC staff have already attended seminars and workshops to learn what it means to cover science impartially, and more will be invited to attend courses in the coming months.

“The key point the workshops tried to impart is that impartiality in science coverage does not simply lie in reflecting a wide range of views, which may result in a ‘false balance,’ ” Andrew Miller, chairman of Parliament’s science and technology select committee, told The Post.

There you go.  A challenging point is diminished as merely a “false balance.”

Because, after all, the discussion is simply over.

Does anyone wonder why the UK is nothing more than a manipulated Western country?

Frankly, this makes me quite sad.  Our foundational documents were sourced from British historical elements and — now — the UK has lost whatever existed of their First Amendment equivalent?

BZ