Sean Gabb On BBC Bias.

In 2007, the BBC announced that, following a meeting with 28 “top environmental scientists” the year before, it would no longer pretend to give balanced coverage of the debate on man-made climate change. Instead, it would become a naked propagandist for the global warming scam. No salaried newspaper reporter bothered to ask who these 28 experts were, and what were their scientific credentials. It took five years before an independent blogger, Tony Newbery, got round to putting in a Freedom of Information request for the names of these experts. When the BBC sent a team of lawyers into action to get a biased tribunal to slap this request down, it was another blogger, Maurizio Morabito (omnologos), who dug round the Web until he found the full list, and showed that these 28 experts were mostly the usual riders on the global warming bandwagon. It became plain that the BBC, which is “public service broadcaster” with a legal duty of impartiality, was up to its neck in a gigantic intellectual fraud.

After the event, Melanie Phillips wrote a nice article about all this in The Daily Mail. (It would have been a nicer article, of course, if she and her friends had lifted so much as a finger of their own to expose the fraud.)