BBC apologizes for Bhopal claim hoax
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LONDON The BBC says it&#39;s fallen victim to a hoax by a fake corporate spokesman. The hoaxter claimed to take responsibility for a deadly cyanide gas leak that killed ten-thousand people in India 20 years ago.
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The BBC's international TV news channel apologized on Friday after being duped into airing an interview with a fake Dow Chemical spokesman who said the U.S. company accepted responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster.
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The creators of a hoax advertisement for Volkswagen AG's Polo car that has circulated on the Internet have apologized and promised not to repeat it, Europe's biggest carmaker said on Monday.
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(InfoWorld) - Indiaâs National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has asked U.K. broadcaster Channel Four Television to provide information from a news documentary that it plans to air Thursday evening about alleged data theft in India. Channel 4's "Dispatches" program will feature the results of a sting operation in which an undercover reporter was offered credit card information for customers of U.K. banks that have outsourced processing work to India. The men offering the information claim to have got it from staff at Indian call centers and business process outsourcing (BPO) operations, according to newspaper reports. Acting through a law firm, Nasscom has asked Channel 4 to provide it with details of the allegations it plans to air, together with evidence and any other supporting documentation, Nasscom said. It asked the broadcaster to cooperate "immediately, fully and wholeheartedlyâ with Indian authorities, to help them prosecute the alleged data thieves in India. As of late Monday in India, Channel 4 had refused to provide the information, according to Nasscom. Several sting operations by newspapers and TV channels have attempted to expose faults in the Indian call center and business process outsourcing (BPO) industries. Last year the U.K. tabloidÂ The Sun reportedÂ that its undercover reporter was sold secret information on 1,000 bank accounts by an employee of a call center in Delhi. Indian police said theyÂ could not make an arrestÂ unless a formal complaint was made by the cell centers companies involved, the banks or their customers. Some of the banks named in the report said their data had not been compromised. Nasscom's president, Kiran Karnik, accused such sting operations of goading people into committing crimes that otherwise might not have been committed. Sting operations like the one by Channel 4 sometimes go beyond uncovering wrongdoing and actually induce crimes that are then recorded and aired, he said in a statement Monday. In this case, one of the alleged criminals has said that the data he offered for sale was fake, according to Karnik. India has had its share of data theft cases, however. Earlier this year, an Indian back-office and customer support operation of the British bank HSBC Bank PLC complained that an employee had stolen confidential data, and used it to defraud 20 of the bank's customers in London to the tune of Â£233,000 ($425,000). The employee has been prosecuted by Indian police. HSBC described the incident as a one-off. Sunil Mehta, vice president of Nasscom, argued that the incidence of data theft and data privacy breaches is lower in India than in the U.K. and the U.S.
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Bhopal - A hoax played on the BBC that US giant Dow Chemical was to pay $12bn to those maimed in the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster was slammed Friday as &quot;cruel&quot; in this city where thousands died.
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Blinded by novelty A House of Commons public spending watchdog has accused BBC chief Mark Thompson of illegally supporting Microsoft. In failing to ensure iPlayer on demand services are available to all licence fee payers he has been blinded by the novelty of the internet, it's charged.â¦
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It seems even a crusty old newshound like me can get burned. My item last week about a couple naming their baby âYahooâ turns out to be a hoax cooked up by a (now-unemployed) Romanian tabloid reporter. Reporters making things up just for a laugh? I am shocked, simply shocked.Â
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"Clearly RDF has been guilty of a serious error of judgment and I deeply regret the embarrassment this has led to for both the BBC and the queen and wanted to apologize to you unreservedly"  A British TV production company on Monday accepted blame for wrongly implying Queen Elizabeth II walked out of a portrait sitting with photographer Annie Leibovitz.In an e-mail to the British Broadcasting Corp., RDF Media's chief executive David Frank admitted his company was 'guilty of a serious error of judgment.'Last week, the BBC was forced to apologize to the queen after it showed a promotional trailer for an upcoming RDF-produced documentary that implied the monarch had left the sitting after Leibovitz asked her to remove her crown. Read more
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Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt has apologised for false government intelligence information about weapons of mass destruction that was the basis for Britain joining the Iraq invasion last year.
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BBC World said on Friday that an interview it ran with a man it identified as a spokesman for Dow Chemical Co, in which he said the US company accepted responsibility for India&#39;s Bhopal disaster, was wrong and part of an
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The British Broadcasting Corporation has apologized to Queen Elizabeth for wrongly implying she stormed out of a sitting with celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, saying a documentary clip had been edited incorrectly.
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New Delhi, Sept. 22 (PTI): Threatening legal action, ESPN-Star Sports today demanded a &quot;public apology&quot; from Zee Telefilms chief Subhash Chandra, for his remarks alleging collusion between the BCCI and the sports broadcaster.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: As the world marks the 20th anniversary of the worst-ever industrial disaster in Bhopal, the BBC&#39;s coverage of the story has left the organisation red-faced and searching for answers.
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When the Chinese government said scandalous TV footage of a Beijing snack vendor stuffing steamed buns with flavored cardboard was a hoax, some quipped that even the news in China is fake.
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The BBC, Britain&#39;s public service broadcaster, acknowledged on Friday that it had been tricked into broadcasting an interview with a man pretending to be a spokesman
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Media & professional: Ian Jack: Altered footage of the Queen has shamed the BBC, but TV reality depends on illusions.
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The BBC apologises for faking the results of a competition on children's programme Blue Peter.