BBC Admit To Using Fake Image–But Don’t Apologise
April 14, 2023
By Paul Homewood
The BBC have finally got round to admitting that the image below was fake:
http://web.archive.org/web/20230115004022/https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-64250382
https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/the-man-who-first-discovered-plastic-in-the-ocean-bbccouk
Even then they brazenly say that nobody would havbe been misled, and that replacing the misleading image a day later was sufficient, even though millions would have only seen the fake image.
No doubt, the editor of the story would have got off scot-free.
Utterly disgraceful!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
If only the army of supposed ‘Disinformation’ reporters that the BBC employs at Telly-Tax payers’ enormous expense was competent enough to spot what was going on in its own backyard.
They do. They are complicit.
Remove the BBC charter forthwith?
Fake, but not as fake as their ubiquitous photos of supposedly black steam coming out of power station cooling towers, either photoshopped or taken near sunset using shadow effects 🙄
Whenever they talk about climate change they show the photo of the cooling towers, or a forest on fire somewhere, or a flood somewhere.
Which anyway is water vapour and NOT CO2 which only St Greta of Stockholm is able to see. She must be an alien because she is able to “see” things invisible to homo sapiens…..
Actually even water vapour is invisible to the human eye. What is visible coming out of cooling towers is actually condensed droplets of liquid water which obviously is visible.
O/B – Such as this example? 🤣🤣🤣
BTW – 14 years ago the (oxymoron alert) ‘BBC Trust’ “Editorial Standards Findings: Appeals and other editorial issues to the Trust considered by the Editorial Standards Committee” reported on its decision to uphold a complaint regarding a similar example in its “Panorama: Comeback Coal, BBC One, 1 December 2008.
See pages 37 – 42 here
Click to access july.pdf
Water vapour not steam.
JP give them credit for their small changes
That photo in the 8 year article is not of a cooling tower (The big wide ones) they used to use , backlit to make the steam to appear dark)
but it appears to be a photo of a smokestack chimney emitting various compounds gases/ particulates including CO2
What always annoys me is the obvious lack of any basic scientific understanding. Both steam and water vapour are completely invisible to the human eye. What can only be seen are condensed droplets of liquid water as in clouds.
Just like the use of the picture of the reservoir that accompanied the “tall tale” of the paucity of water in reservoirs UK-wide and spotted by a sharp eyed person as being a couple of years OOD, taken in summer and nothing like the current level of a few weeks ago ( since when it has rained ….a lot….in March and early April, with the deafening silence of a BBC article pointing this out..)
Again, doubtless the BBC’s reporter and editor got a “mention in BBC despatches” rather than being skewered for a pack of lies.
Yes, I think he was sent to interview Elon Musk!
Yes I am monitoring such stuff
There is immense PR pressure to say there is still a drought in Cornwall
we think cos the water company can claim all kinds of infrastructure allowances.
The hosepipe ban continues although most days in the last 2 months have had rain
Southwest Water sample the water levels each Sunday but have been holding back data for upto 8 days
Last Sunday’s has just gone up 5 days late
and by them this year’s levels are still RISING and continuing to close in on last years
now about 10% behind
They rejigged the page and added a big graphic which highlight’s MARCH levels , but these are two weeks out of date now
They focus on the 2 big reservoirs but the 9th of April readings appears to show that they drain the large ones to keep the smaller ones topped up which are have been running at 100% full for sometime now ..that’s higher than last year
https://www.southwestwater.co.uk/environment/water-resources/current-reservoir-storages/
The 14 smaller Cornwall/Devon reservoirs are at effectively 100% full
whilst the 2 largest are kept lower
Seems for some reason they drain them into the smaller ones
#DroughtPorn makes money
.. https://twitter.com/SeasideCornwall/status/1646496761081372675
In the real world there is “immense pressure” for #DroughtPorn cos it makes money
Yesterday lunchtime 3 BBC tweets said
Water levels in Devon and Cornwall remain under ‘immense pressure’
BBC Radio Cornwall, @BBCSpotlight daily NewsPR show, BBC Radio Devon
#1 Why say “A water company said” ?
There is only one water company in the region. Just say SouthWestWater says
#2 “Colliford is at 60%” that’s a cherrypick
They drain 2 big reservoirs into the smaller 14
And those are at effectively 100% full
The stats link says the system tally is 79.6% full
Since it was about 90% last year it was only 10% down
#3 “reservoir levels were 17% lower than at the same time last year”
Nope it’s Colliford that’s 17% down
#4 They trick by publishing figs almost a week late
NOW today they will be HIGHER
And the trees were in full leaf! Idiots.
I put in a complaint about that image the day it appeared. All I have received back from them so far is an apology for delay in responding.
Ray there are 3 different BBC pages about complaints
#1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/recent-complaints?category=All
“BBC’s public responses to significant complaints of wide audience concern. ”
ie it doesn’t show complaints about March 16th web article
showing an dry photo of a Nidderdale reservoir from Aug 2022 when actually it was nearly full
…https://twitter.com/anonymousZhax/status/1636279640447758336
#2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/
“It does not include routine corrections to news stories, minor on-air apologies”
One trick is they use is to shout #FakeGreens claims LOUD, & OFTEN
Then when truth comes out, correct LATE, & QUIETLY
… took 12 days to delete a misleading video tweet they made that amplified a Labour MPs false views on Air Pollution
For a similar prog in January the ECU unit took on a clumsily worded complaint and brushed it aside
Thread https://twitter.com/No2BS/status/1647271902103183361
#3 Some people take it up a level to ECU
It’s searchable by Bing
eg I find https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/panorama-wild-weather-bbc-one-3-november-2021
latest ECU date to February
https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/recent-ecu?page=0
As I posted a while ago, they’re still using similar ‘concepts’ from the same source to illustrate their articles – a turtle eating a plastic bag.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Ocean+plastic&d=news_ps
https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/turtle-eating-plastic.html
No surprise. We have become innured to the public broadcaster’s arrogance. Disgraceful behaviour by an often disgraced organisation.
Another apparent victim of climate alarmism.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23450878.brighton-greenpeace-activist-died-losing-hope-future/
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They big up IMF *PREDICTIONS* ..which then turn out to be false
Then they underreport REALWORLD good UK financial news
Has the IMF ever got anything correct? They seem a bit like the Met Office, who incidentally according to GB News last night might be going on strike in the latest civil service walkout – where many come into their office from their sofas to stand outside and protest. Let’s hope they stay on strike for weeks.
It’s insidious. What they’re saying is that as long as the message is right, the reality doesn’t matter
Ends Justifies the means
It says in their Saul Alinsky handbook
Without appropriate penalties ( or any penalty at all) this will just keep happening.
Another reason why the new DG should resign and be replaced with something more than an empty shirt spouting platitudes.
The bigger problem here is not that there’s plastic in the ocean, but what is the source of that plastic.
I remember when recycling got started you had to sort paper, plastic and glass at a minimum. As time went on, the need to sort was reduced and you’d assume someone had invented much more efficient sorting machines so that it was no longer necessary. Turns out the recycled materials were being shipped to the other side of the world to be sorted cheap labor in 3rd world countries. However, as their economies improved, they no longer wanted to sort Europe’s and America’s trash so it went to even poorer countries with no environmental controls whatsoever and that trash washed down the river to the sea. In essence, recycling became exporting plastic waste.
A lot of plastic and paper can be burned in waste to energy incinerators. Environmental groups are working hard to shut these down. Some of the more valuable plastics can be recycled but its not cheap and you need to have the manufacturing base to turn it into something else. That base has moved offshore as well. If sustainability means re-use and recycle materials, how can that be if the materials have to go bath and forth halfway around the world to complete the cycle?
And now they propose 7 bins for recycling!
That will sort the problem out /s
Thread about how they have hidden the complaint finding
Could you find that BBC finding without Paul telling you ?
You may say the finding is dated 30th of March, so it must have been on the BBC website since then
Nope, they told us (well MZ) on the 30th March that it would go up the next day
but every day we checked and it didn’t
until today two weeks later they did put it up.
That way it’s not on the front page of findings, but buried 3 pages back
that’s Leopard In The Basement stuff
more .. https://twitter.com/No2BS/status/1646846082809311234
And they repeated the same ‘crime’ on the 8th March with a different turtle image/article as per my post above.
BTW Buckfastleigh solar farm substation has been on fire
BBC report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-65275192
Batteries?
” called to the solar farm near Rattery on Thursday morning.”
That would make it the “Rattery Battery”!!!!
Great work as always Paul
When you’re on a mission to ‘educate’ the public, nothing is off limits and everything is justified for the greater good.
I find that bracketed statement about readers not being misled as the most egregious and the most revealing of the entire “outcome”. It’s basically saying not to worry about what all that crowd out there say; our right-thinking readers can rely on our right thinking writers to keep feeding them the old right-on pap to preen their egos.