The long-awaited BBC review of science coverage is going to be published tomorrow according to the Mail.
Apparently the upshot is that the BBC is going to challenge sceptics much harder, but there is no word in the article of Brian Cox's Orwellian solution - having any programme that challenges mainstream science flagged as a minority view. I wonder if this means that the BBBC has stepped back from the edge. I for one have no objections to being challenged, as this gives the audience a better opportunity to judge how sound one's arguments are.
If this is the approach that the BBC intends to take, it's going to be an interesting contrast with the ideas of Connie St Louis, who is arguing that scientific journalists should be challenging scientists much harder rather than just engaging in a lot of cutting-and-pasting. If the BBC is going to continue to accept the prognostications of mainstream scientists without question, while bashing anyone who challenges them, they are going to rather prove her point for her.
(H/T Alan Reed in Unthreaded)
Bishop Hill
I'm reminded of Jeremy Paxman's observation that the BBC had given up any semblance of neutrality on AGW. That was in 2007.
And the BBC has now decided that they need to be less friendly to sceptics!