BBC website should credit its authors

[ascendinglark]

Does anyone agree with me that the BBC news website should indicate exactly WHO wrote the stories on it? Currently, no author credit is given, which of course heightens the perception of the BBC as a faceless propaganda machine.

The public needs to start taking individual BBC writers and journalists to task over the stories they write. Repeat offenders and journalists with an obvious agenda need to be identified and held accountable.

[Teddy Bear]

As far as responsibilty for any article on the BBC website, it anyway lies with the editors regardless of who wrote it. Many stories are merely re-writes of those coming off the wires from AP, Reuters, AL Jazeera, and the like with the recognizable BBC slant if the originals didn't already do it for them.

Question is, how do you hold them 'accountable'? I think it's fair to say that the media as a whole has far too great a power with too little responsibilty and accountability. Since they make or break politicians and parties, and set policies that the government will have to act on we can't really regard ourselves as a democracy but more a mediaocrocy (pun intended although the term really fits) it's the lack of responsibilty that allows the corruption to exist and I can't really see how it can ever be legislated as the legislators will also have to be held accountable. Unless moral excellence becomes the prime motivation of both the media and politicians we are looking at our human downfall.