BBC Issues Guidelines on What Staff Can Blog

The BBC has issued a draft set of editorial guidelines that could change what its journalists can post online. (Check out the guidelines at the BBC site.)

The Guardian newspaper says the BBC wrote:

"Our audiences should not be able to tell from BBC programmes or other BBC output the personal prejudices of our journalists and presenters on such matters.

"This applies as much to online content as it does to news bulletins. Nothing should be written by journalists and presenters that would not be said on-air".