Monday, 5 June 2006

Query to BBC re accuracy of story.

This morning I posted an email to the BBC News website feedback about the wanderingscribe followup story as follows:
I have already pointed out that your mathematics in the story about Anya Peters (Parked up) are incorrect. Your story claims that her website had 11,000 READERS per week, which is incorrect. You are basing your figures on the statistics provided by her site meter which records the number of VISITS made to her site. Agreed there would have been 11,000 visits per week but since many of these visitors returned daily for updates and many of them made more than 1 visit per day then the actual number of readers could be as little as 500. Isn't it time that your story should be corrected? or is this a case of not letting the facts get in the way of a good story? I would also like to know why the BBC has printed mostly complimentary comments concerning this story and neglected those which are critical of her story.
The story in question can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5029984.stm
I await to hear what BBC's reply (if any) is to this.