The BBC are known for quite a few things… Wimbledon coverage, Comic Relief, the Nine O’Clock News and now cutting rebuttals.
What is a rebuttal?
This is when a media organisation has written something which you disagree with.
Take the case of the Daily Mail. They hung a story on the back of digital figures which show the screening of Blue Peter had zero figures. Zip.
This, ladies and gents, is a national outrage.
Only thing was that it was being economical with the truth.
The episode had almost 300,000 viewers. The screening in question was a repeat at 2.30pm in the afternoon when kids were at school in sign-language.
Rather than sit and seethe the BBC Press Office did what every organisation should do now the internet is here. It used the web to challenge and rebut the piece.
Zero viewers? We beg to differ… pic.twitter.com/LhkcrzGzJQ
— BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) 5 July 2017
So, what have we learned?
Don’t sit and seethe. Something shareable gets shared. And if you are a journalist? There’s every likelihood that the full picture will emerge.
This isn’t the first time these two have been at it…
.@DailyMailUK pitches one off the seam. @bbcpress steps out and clips it to the boundary. pic.twitter.com/5eF7sIZP7K
— Paul Vale (@PaulVale) July 6, 2017
Dan,
The BBC rebuttal seems to be missing from your post. Do you have a link?
Also, does this contradict your previous advice about arguing with an idiot?
Best,
Lawrence
Found it as the link within the embedded tweet.
🙂
I can’t find it? I just got the DM story… and I’ve now given them another click through, something I really didn’t want to do!!!
Got it – but you have to click on the bottom of the tweet….not anywhere on the picture as I did – twice!
Updated the link and added another – thanks for spotting. Good point about the Unkle Keith advice about arguing online. If you stick to the facts and, as the kids say, just leave that there that’s a good strategy.