Thursday, November 09, 2006

Oops! Britney and Kevin split up. Nicely put. Let's see if Newsround reports Britney's marriage number 3 as conscientiously as marriage number 2. But if her next relationship is with Katie Melua then I'm doubtful Newsround's audience would be kept in the loop.

Regular readers know that Newsround's news reporting isn't impartial - it's totally biased against lgbt people. That's why I'm so interested in the BBC's "impartiality summit" which was reported in the press last month (see blogs 24-26 October 2006). I want to know exactly what, if anything, was said about the BBC discrimination against lgbt people, revealed in a Stonewall report and also by this Newsround blog. All we do know is that some senior figures believe there are too many gays in the organisation.

Helen Boaden, Director of BBC News, claims the summit wasn’t secret and her statement was echoed a few days later by Mark Thompson, the BBC's Director-General. In an article for the Mail group of newspapers Mr Thompson wrote that the seminar was open to external participants and far from being secret, it was streamed live on the internet. I wanted to know when and where details of the summit were made available to the public. I'm still awaiting a reply to these questions.

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