Irresponsible article on BBC website

[IanD]

As they've dealt with the issue, I'm sure that for their own figures they'd want to mark it as resolved as soon as possible. However, I've not even received a standard "we'll deal with this within x days/weeks" response

You assume you were the only one who contacted them. They probably haven't even got to yours yet.

 

[edwin_m]

However if you want potentially Irresponsible behaviour:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38223838/is-your-postman-delivering-drugs


Posting a frame from a music video as a fluff piece vs buying drugs, I wonder which takes the most effort to ensure the correct checks and balances are passed.

The drugs article says that the drugs were destroyed at an approved facility, and notes that a person they quoted as buying some (not the reporter) was breaking the law by doing so. I suspect taking that kind of shot on a live railway has a far greater chance of consequences than buying a few packets of relatively soft drugs.

 

[miami]

My impression is the reporter bought a pill, presumably after layers and layers of editorial and legal oversight (I'd love to see the expenses claim on that one!)

Newsbeat obtained MDMA, cannabis and former legal high, Spice using Bitcoin on the "dark web", a collection of thousands of websites that use anonymity tools to hide their IP address.

At the same time newsbeat would have assigned someone to cover the music award story. The BBC did not create the video, and from the comments on youtube nobody cares (aside from what looks to be the driver at: https://youtu.be/zQZEPyAbRRc?t=53s)

By highlighting this part the BBC reporter has instead drawn attention to a lot of young people that it's dangerous to do what she did.


Of course there are always some who will complain anyway. The BBC put out a good PSA video aimed at the kinds of people who will ignore the lights (https://youtu.be/zQZEPyAbRRc?t=53s), but that attracted copmlaints