BBC Claims Impartiality

Adam Rutherford is a presenter for a BBC Radio 4 science programme.  Rutherford disagrees with the views of Graham Stringer MP who sits on the Commons Science and Technology Committee. Stringer, apparently, believes that government policies to mitigate man-made global warming could be harmful.  Rutherford urged his Twitter followers to show “righteous indignation” at Stringer’s reselection to the Committee.

The BBC, Rutherford’s employer, has rebuked him because they claim that his comments on Twitter potentially compromised the BBC’s impartiality on the climate change issue.  A display of righteous indignation from the BBC, if ever there was one!