"London - Around the world, the three letters “BBC” have long been synonymous with trustworthy, reliable journalism. Now the London-based British Broadcasting Corporation, the world's biggest public broadcaster, has been thrown into deep crisis over allegations of sloppy journalism. It has been accused, and apologised for, the journalistic sin of failing to check and re-check its sources, of outsourcing the production of news programmes and of encouraging “trial by twitter.” (Quoted from article)