The BBC got a good belting from the Royal Family a week or so ago after it made a trailer that seemed to show the Queen storming out of a photoshoot. In fact, the clip was of the Queen coming in to the shoot, not out of it.
The BBC offered a groveling apology and promised it wouldn’t happen again.
Nigel Barlow, a mature student at UCLan, has posted this news that he spotted in The Guardian this week.
Charlie Addiman (Letters, July 14) points out that no apology or correction was offered when BBC news reversed the order of events at Orgreave in 1984, screening shots of miners throwing stones at police before showing mounted officers charging the miners. In 1991, though, in response to a complaint by Charles Alverson of Cambridge, Martin Hart, on behalf of the then BBC director general, acknowledged that the film had been reversed. Hart claimed: “It was a mistake made in the haste of putting the news together … an editor inadvertently reversed the occurrence of the actions of the police and of the pickets.” No inquiry. No measures to ensure it doesn’t happen again. No public admission.
