Hypocrisy writ large: the BBC pot calls the CIA kettle black

Biased BBC's story about the BBC's own editing of Wikipedia has been online for 18 hours - and has been blogged on the BBC's internal blog system by Nick Reynolds, a senior advisor on editorial policy, and yet this article, by Jonathan Fildes (is that a typo for Fidler?), a BBC science and technology reporter no less, allegedly (maybe he's the same work experience kid that happened to edit George Bush's Wikipedia entry!), the third most important story the BBC can find, apparently, makes absolutely no mention of the BBC's own Wikipedia edits. Unbelievable.

The BBC's Mr. Fidler writes:

An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that the CIA was involved in editing entries.

Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the agency's computers made edits to the page of Iran's president.

It also purportedly shows that the Vatican has edited entries about Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.

Now for some BBC-style Wikipedia 'revising' for the BBC's Mr. Fidler:

An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that the BBC was involved in editing entries.

Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the corporation's computers made edits to the page of America's president.

It also purportedly shows that the BBC has edited entries about Britain's former leader Tony Blair.

Now, if one of you Beeboids that hangs around here could just commit my minor edits (in bold above) to Mr. Fidler's BBC Views Online version of the article (the third most important story in the world!) that would be grand. Thanks very much. (See here for the BBC's edit of George W. Bush's Wikipedia entry and here for the BBC's puerile edits of Tony Blair's Wikipedia entry).

P.S. If that's too much to ask, just do the decent thing and update Mr. Fidler's article to extend the same level of scrutiny the BBC subjects the CIA to to the BBC itself.

Thank you to the many spotters of this development and to Sam Duncan for the Tony Blair Wikipedia link.

Update: You can see the rest of Biased BBC by going to our top page. While you're here, make sure you see and hear our story from Tuesday about the BBC's decade long cover up of Neil Kinnock exploding in anger at James Naughtie on Radio 4.

- Biased BBC Home