Felicity Mellor of Imperial College has been mentioned at BH from time to time, chiefly because of her view that media coverage of science is insufficiently balanced. At a lecture at the University of Nottingham last summer she discussed the even more radical idea that there is just too much science reporting in the media, along with many other aspects of science journalism. There was also much discussion of the Jones review of the BBC's coverage of science, for which she did the underlying research.
Along the way (12:00 or thereabouts) she reveals that BBC executives tried to get the output of the report changed to make it less critical of the corporation's reliance on press releases as the source of their stories.
She also notes (28:00) the criticisms in the Jones report of "false balance", making the uncomfortable observation that in the research she did for the report she actually couldn't find much evidence of any balance at all: in only 6% of science pieces did a balancing view feature.
One could be forgiven for thinking that Jones was using the platform given him by the BBC to advance a political agenda in the face of the underlying research.