Manufactured News

BBC manufacturing news items? Well, in this Independent report, the BBC was apparently:

"were simply reduced to issuing a grovelling apology to the Queen, after being caught red-handed in a flagrant case of spin.

The source of their embarrassment and public repentance was a badly-edited trailer that implied the monarch had stormed out of a sitting with the photographer Annie Leibovitz. "

The BBC had:

"gave the impression Her Majesty had abruptly halted the photoshoot when Leibovitz asked her to remove her crown. Scenes of the pair clashing over the request were followed by footage of the Queen walking down a corridor and telling her lady-in-waiting: "I'm not changing anything. I've had enough dressing like this, thank you very much."

But those images, far from being filmed after the clash, were taken as the Queen made her way to the sitting. The trailer, which had been shown at the launch of BBC1s autumn season, had been edited incorrectly, executives conceded."

Bravo BBC! Anti-monarchy bias now?* Leftist institutional bias? Should the BBC not be reporting the news rather than manufacturing it?

And this report is from the Independent, a somewhat leftist newspaper with the infamous what many may consider as "pro-Palestinian" columnist Robert Fisk.

*I am not an admirer of the monarchy nor do I care for it but...