UK - BBC worried about blogs?

You bet. I was checking my stats and noticed on the "who's on" page, an entry for the BBC.



The referring url takes you here. The search appears to be down when I visted but here's a screen shot of the BBC's search critera.



Note the "all blogs" and "with a lot of authority". What are you worried about aunty?

So, after all the millions we pay the BBC, they use Technocrati to find out their mistakes caught by bloggers. Hugh Berlyn's, an assistant editor of BBC News Online, words still apply today.

The leaked e-mails sent by Hugh Berlyn, an assistant editor of BBC News Online, show that despite the furore surrounding the Gilligan report, dozens of "unvetted" stories appear on the internet every day. The result is a string of stories that are, at best, littered with errors and, at worst, inaccurate and potentially libellous.

In an e-mail last October, Mr Berlyn said journalists were not showing their reports to managers, who are supposed to check them in accordance with BBC rules. He wrote: "Yesterday we carried out a study of how many of your stories were being properly checked by a second pair of eyes before publication. To my surprise and concern, more than 60 stories around the country were apparently published without being second-checked."

Since the BBC are now using us bloggers to do their fact checking, can I at least get paid for my efforts? Or, at least refund my TV tax.