JFDee
Senior Member.
This is not directly about debunking, but it allows a glimpse into media behaviour and mechanisms:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/20/bbc-climate-change-science-coverage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/20/bbc-climate-change-science-coverage
The BBC is to revamp its science coverage after an independent review highlighted weaknesses and concluded that journalists boosted the apparent controversy of scientific news stories such as climate change, GM crops and the MMR vaccine by giving too much weight to fringe scientific viewpoints.
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