> Reporting on yourself is the polar opposite of journalistic integrity.
1. are there any news outlets that abides by this rule?
2. if I get my news from listening to BBC on the radio or whatever, then am I just out of luck?
>Reporting on yourself but not even noting to the reader that you're reporting on yourself is worse yet.
I get how including a disclosure makes sense if the affiliation isn't obvious (eg. washington post reporting on amazon), but do you really need a disclaimer to let the reader know that the BBC in the article is the same BBC that wrote the article?
> are there any news outlets that abides by this rule?
Maybe not - but others are their own business, rather than funded by a tax on the people like the BBC.
And the BBC do seem to be particularly weird and breathless about reporting on themselves. They've edited the article in place and they're now quoting insider knowledge from an anonymous tip-off... that they've given themselves.
It's like that in other areas as well - people working at the BBC once commissioned a sitcom about... people working at the BBC. And when they report on the winner of one of their game shows as news, or when they report that it's a headline that someone said something in an interview from their own interview shows.
> if I get my news from listening to BBC on the radio or whatever, then am I just out of luck?
For getting objective reporting on the BBC then yeah you are, either way. Is that surprising? Obviously they can't objectively report on themselves.
I think they should possibly have a headline on the front page, but it should link to another outlet's reporting. But then choosing the outlet isn't objective either.
1. are there any news outlets that abides by this rule?
2. if I get my news from listening to BBC on the radio or whatever, then am I just out of luck?
>Reporting on yourself but not even noting to the reader that you're reporting on yourself is worse yet.
I get how including a disclosure makes sense if the affiliation isn't obvious (eg. washington post reporting on amazon), but do you really need a disclaimer to let the reader know that the BBC in the article is the same BBC that wrote the article?