Frogblog today reported how the BBC h announced plans to scrap a Climate Change special, scheduled for January 2008.

“With the motto “Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation” and the stated mission “to inform, educate and entertain”, it is tragic that the world’s largest broadcasting corporation, the BBC, has cancelled plans to run a TV special on climate change.”

However, Planet Relief has been scrapped as senior news editors were apparently worried it was too “campaigning” in nature, causing the Beep to be accused of bias. The Head of TV news, Peter Horrocks, reportedly wrote in the BBC News website’s editors’ blog: “It is not the BBC’s job to lead opinion or proselytise on this or any other subject.”

Surely they could have structured it somehow so that they didn’t feel they were doing this? What is the BBC good for it doesn’t look into one of the most major factors in today’s society? They’re not even “informing” so as to let people make up their own minds, let along “educating” this way.

And if they’ve already started filming - I wonder what their carbon footprint was on that? Now wasted energy.
You can read what Frogblog had to say here.