Complaint to BBC - 2nd Jul 2016 4:10pm
I've just put a complaint in to the BBC who were making news up by editing historical footage together in the wrong order.
Location: England
Type of complaint: BBC News (TV, Radio and website)
Which news service is it about: TV News
Channel: BBC News Channel
Programme title: BBC News?
Transmission date: 02/07/2016
Broadcast type: When it was actually broadcast
Incident time: 16:36
Complaint category: Factual error or inaccuracy
Complaint title: Editing events that occur at a different time
Complaint description:-
Watching the item about Farage being under pressure in the EU parliament. It became clear that although it was put over as a contemporary broadcast from the EU parliament, in actual fact it was a number of segments edited together from different days in the parliament. Furthermore, the events were not in historic order.
This corrupted what was being shown as Farage could not be replying to some of the other MEPs comments as his statement was made before them.
This created a complete misrepresentation of what was going on, indeed it was effectively a piece of fiction not fact - a similar process is used in the music industry by sampling and editing, it becomes a unique piece of music and does not represent the originals.
You cannot have a news broadcast that is fiction (War of the Worlds springs to mind!), without making clear that it is fiction.
Location: England
Type of complaint: BBC News (TV, Radio and website)
Which news service is it about: TV News
Channel: BBC News Channel
Programme title: BBC News?
Transmission date: 02/07/2016
Broadcast type: When it was actually broadcast
Incident time: 16:36
Complaint category: Factual error or inaccuracy
Complaint title: Editing events that occur at a different time
Complaint description:-
Watching the item about Farage being under pressure in the EU parliament. It became clear that although it was put over as a contemporary broadcast from the EU parliament, in actual fact it was a number of segments edited together from different days in the parliament. Furthermore, the events were not in historic order.
This corrupted what was being shown as Farage could not be replying to some of the other MEPs comments as his statement was made before them.
This created a complete misrepresentation of what was going on, indeed it was effectively a piece of fiction not fact - a similar process is used in the music industry by sampling and editing, it becomes a unique piece of music and does not represent the originals.
You cannot have a news broadcast that is fiction (War of the Worlds springs to mind!), without making clear that it is fiction.