226:, BBC News introduced new money-savings contracts. Previously, BBC News had bought all material from their contract freelance journalists, in whatever form: written; sound recorded; television media; editorial. Under the new contract, it was proposed that the BBC would only buy the required pieces, while restricting contracted freelancers solely to working for BBC News. Brabant led the orchestrated opposition, which resulted in him and other freelance journalists being allowed to sell the non-required pieces to other news organisations. Hence in 2009, after BBC News bought Brabant's written follow-up piece on the
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At the end of the 28 December 2016 episode, Sreenivasan made a statement on the situation, saying, “the NewsHour acknowledges that our reporting of this segment should have been more skeptical….We are examining each step in our process, and we apologize to our audience for the lapses in this report.”
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of "censoring" the segment and practicing "blackout tactics" to squelch "divergent science." PBS Ombudsman
Michael Getler in a blog titled "How Do You Say 'Oy Vey' in Greek?" said the incident was "painful to describe," and that "what happened last night will undoubtedly provide fodder for those who
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page streaming the episode, scores of viewers left comments harshly critical of the segment's journalistic integrity and alleged lack of scientific sophistication. On
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Brabant started his journalistic career at the
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use the term 'fake news' these days to tarnish a news program that does not engage in such things." Malcolm
Brabant has not commented on his role in the story and has neither defended nor disavowed its journalistic integrity.
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about his illness and the profound effect it had on his career and family life. The book was made into a documentary film in 2018 and included original footage shot by
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for their website, Brabant sold the visual recording to other news organisations. Other freelance journalists later commented that
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inventor and clean energy has been removed temporarily while it is being further reviewed by our staff.” A full transcript and full streaming segment could still be found elsewhere on the Web.
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