BBC Framework in General:
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is an independent news corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is one of the world's largest broadcast news organizations and generates hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The website contains international news coverage, as well as British, entertainment, science, and political news. Many reports are accompanied by audio and video from the BBC's television and radio news services, while the latest TV and radio bulletins are also available to view or listen to on the site together with other current programs.
The service maintains 44 foreign news bureaus and has correspondents in almost every country. Within the BBC construction, the term “correspondent” is referred to a journalist or commentator in an area of specialty who contributes reports to this news agency to be appeared on radio, television news or BBC News Online or it refers to another type of company, a foreign correspondent , from a remote, often distant, location stationed in a foreign country.
Depending on unfavorable situations to the ruling governments, BBC news reporters and broadcasts are now or have been banned in several countries; and, Iran isn’t an exception of this category. Even though BBC news online and BBC television are currently banned from broadcasting in Iran, BBC still has a correspondent in Tehran who observes and monitors news stories.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is an independent news corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is one of the world's largest broadcast news organizations and generates hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The website contains international news coverage, as well as British, entertainment, science, and political news. Many reports are accompanied by audio and video from the BBC's television and radio news services, while the latest TV and radio bulletins are also available to view or listen to on the site together with other current programs.
The service maintains 44 foreign news bureaus and has correspondents in almost every country. Within the BBC construction, the term “correspondent” is referred to a journalist or commentator in an area of specialty who contributes reports to this news agency to be appeared on radio, television news or BBC News Online or it refers to another type of company, a foreign correspondent , from a remote, often distant, location stationed in a foreign country.
Depending on unfavorable situations to the ruling governments, BBC news reporters and broadcasts are now or have been banned in several countries; and, Iran isn’t an exception of this category. Even though BBC news online and BBC television are currently banned from broadcasting in Iran, BBC still has a correspondent in Tehran who observes and monitors news stories.
Source of News:
The BBC is required by its royal charter to be free from both political and commercial influence and to report news stories impartially; and, the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on Politics and Public Policy state that while "the voices and opinions of opposition parties must be routinely aired and challenged", "the government of the day will often be the primary source of news" (from "Editorial Guidelines Extracts", BBC)
It is also said that “BBC Monitoring”, with an increasing number of international offices in Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, provides open source news and information to a range of clients, including in government, academia and the media, based on its continuous (round the clock) monitoring of TV, radio, press, internet and news agency sources worldwide and then translates the reports into English from more than 100 languages. This service believes that it focuses on “the words as spoken" - accurate and impartial translations of what happened, plus understanding how the media reported an event.
The BBC is required by its royal charter to be free from both political and commercial influence and to report news stories impartially; and, the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on Politics and Public Policy state that while "the voices and opinions of opposition parties must be routinely aired and challenged", "the government of the day will often be the primary source of news" (from "Editorial Guidelines Extracts", BBC)
It is also said that “BBC Monitoring”, with an increasing number of international offices in Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, provides open source news and information to a range of clients, including in government, academia and the media, based on its continuous (round the clock) monitoring of TV, radio, press, internet and news agency sources worldwide and then translates the reports into English from more than 100 languages. This service believes that it focuses on “the words as spoken" - accurate and impartial translations of what happened, plus understanding how the media reported an event.
Having the above brief framework
of BBC in mind and a general consideration of those news stories from Iran
related to presidential election of 2013 covered by BBC News Online showed that
BBC News Online doesn’t usually mention from which news agency inside or
outside of Iran, the stories are reported or translated. It doesn’t also cite
the name of the reporters or commentators on news.
Based on this observation, the assumption of that BBC may translate all or a remarkable part of its news coverage from inside Iran’s news agencies is denied because it cannot be said clearly that if BBC publishes a specific piece of news from what its reporters’ or correspondents’ observe or if it publishes the news stories based on a translation from Farsi; and to what extent it may be a combination of both.
Based on this observation, the assumption of that BBC may translate all or a remarkable part of its news coverage from inside Iran’s news agencies is denied because it cannot be said clearly that if BBC publishes a specific piece of news from what its reporters’ or correspondents’ observe or if it publishes the news stories based on a translation from Farsi; and to what extent it may be a combination of both.
In continue, the same is
considered on CNN and Aljazeera News coverage on Iran presidential election
2013; afterwards, the interpretation and the reflection of this specific event
on these three media will be focused.
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