BBC Charter Agreement

(1) The BBC must do all it can to ensure that controversial subjects are treated with due accuracy and impartiality in all relevant output.

(v) (l) (refraining from use of techniques which exploit the possibility of conveying a message to viewers or listeners, or of otherwise influencing their minds, without their being aware, or fully aware, of what has occurred)

The BBC is a self regulating body.

The Trust controls the BBC on our behalf to ensure that "the BBC's journalism meets the highest standards of accuracy and impartiality to sustain public trust".


Public trust? The BBC Conspiracy Files series is presented as a serious analysis of controversial events. But is it exploiting public trust to white-wash serious analysis out of the picture?

OFCOM (The official media watch dog) states that Parliament has granted the BBC exemption from independent scrutiny. [Royal Charter Link)]

There is clearly a duty on the BBC, not to lie or distort and to be impartial i.e. to have a fair balance.

This review examines publicly available information to question whether the BBC 911 Conspiracy File programme has mislead the public and whether it was designed to do so.

The 58 minute documentary was a re-presentation of the official White House explanation of that extraordinary day. The official explanation, endorsed and promoted by the BBC is SNAFU; Situation Normal All Fu*ked Up. More notable by far was the catch phrase "conspiracy theorist" threaded throughout the programme.

Repetition of this manipulative message, "conspiracy theorist", implying "sad psychologically flawed soul", within a frame work of interviews with people, presented by the respected BBC as authoritative and independent, "constitutes the use of techniques which exploit the possibility of conveying a message to viewers, without their being aware, of what has occurred." See below

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Programme Code Standards Page 22

(v) paragraph (l) (refraining from use of techniques which exploit the possibility of conveying a message to viewers or listeners, or of otherwise influencing their minds, without their being aware, or fully aware, of what has occurred)

Section 44
Accuracy and impartiality Page 20

(1) The BBC must do all it can to ensure that controversial subjects are treated with due accuracy and impartiality in all relevant output.