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Date Posted：03/28/2010 2:23 AMCopy HTML BBC wasted tax money covering McCann case          Forum Index -> The hunt for Maddy View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message raggatt Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 595 Location: Oregon, West Coast, USA Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:31 am    Post subject: BBC wasted tax money covering McCann case BBC 'wasted money' covering McCann case By Nicole Martin, Digital and Media Correspondent Last Updated: 2:27am GMT 17/01/2008 Martin Bell, the former BBC correspondent, has accused the corporation of wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money in its coverage of the abduction of Madeleine McCann. Mr Bell criticised his former employer sending the news presenter Huw Edwards to Portugal and paying for a helicopter to follow Kate and Gerry McCann’s car as they drove home from East Midlands airport in September. "I’m calling it the death of news," he said. "It is the stupidification of the news agenda. It is pretty obvious television news has lost its way not just with the McCann case but that has been extreme." In secret correspondence sent out by the BBC, the corporation asks staff: "Did we get sucked into the media circus?" Mr Bell, who quit the BBC to run as an independent MP fighting Tory sleaze, said: "I don’t think they would be having a debate about the McCann coverage if they were entirely happy about the way they had done it." A BBC spokesman said: "The McCann story was of enormous interest to a large part of the audience. Our role was to balance that interest with regards to the rest of the news agenda, and on the whole, we felt we got it right." http://web.archive.org/web/20080118215645/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/16/nbbc116.xml ___________________________________________ So, it wasn't just people's voluntary donations to the Find Maddie Fund that have been wasted. It's also been everyone else's tax money. Back to top <script language=JavaScript type=text/javascript><!-- if ( navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('mozilla') != -1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('5.') == -1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('6.') == -1 ) document.write(' '); else document.write('   '); //--></script>   Display posts from previous: <select name=postdays><option selected value=0>All Posts</option><option value=1>1 Day</option><option value=7>7 Days</option><option value=14>2 Weeks</option><option value=30>1 Month</option><option value=90>3 Months</option><option value=180>6 Months</option><option value=364>1 Year</option></select> <select name=postorder><option selected value=asc>Oldest First</option><option value=desc>Newest First</option></select> <input class=liteoption value=Go type=submit name=submit>        Forum Index -> The hunt for Maddy All times are GMT Page 1 of 1