The root cause of all this is the BBC's comparative strength.
This is the BBC's Question Time - but not as we know it.
BBC: MPs go back to school for Schools Questions and Answers
Earlier this month the BBC revealed the stadium, where the gold-medal winner trains, could be knocked down to save Sheffield council money.
Earlier this year the BBC News website highlighted a whistleblower's concerns that degrees were being awarded to overseas students who spoke almost no English.
Earlier this month the BBC's Panorama programme claimed the lists were supplied to the Dobson campaign by Labour headquarters at Millbank, with Ms McDonagh's authority.
After some debate (this is the BBC after all) I won't quote directly but the suggestion was that, in the morning, Kirsty Williams will regret getting into bed with Labour.
However, this year the BBC will measure 2013 change in seats by comparison with the last election, 2009, when most of these councils were elected (thus ignoring subsequent by-election changes and councillor defections).
Earlier this month the BBC apologised after a memory stick containing the personal details of hundreds of children who had applied to take part in a TV show was stolen from a vehicle.
However, a second crossing point in Kashmir Valley, at Uri, did not shut after the clashes earlier this month, the BBC's Riyaz Masroor reports from Srinagar.
BBC: India and Pakistan resume cross-border travel in Kashmir
The evidence was contained in e-mails uncovered by NoW publisher, News International, in 2007, but not given to the Metropolitan Police until June this year, the BBC has learned.
When allegations from the ITV documentary surfaced earlier this week, the BBC issued a statement saying it was "horrified" by suggestions that assaults took place on BBC premises, "or have been carried out by anyone working at the BBC".
Three months later there was more criticism for the BBC from Conservatives, this time over the way the BBC publicised WWI series The Monocled Mutineer as a true story.
"We've a strong product and we look forward to getting back into business with this product, " he told the BBC this month.
However, the alternative to this could have involved the BBC buying capacity on another part of the Freeview system at commercial rates - capacity which might not have been able to reach viewers served by relay transmitters.
Unlike all the other broadcasters involved in this bidding process, the BBC is not a commercial organisation.
Charles Porter gave this account to the BBC World Service programme, the World Today.
Ken Jarecke gave this account to the BBC World Service programme, the World Today.
BBC: NEWS | Middle East | Picture power: Death of an Iraqi soldier
The Philippines is taking a risk with this move, says the BBC's Kate McGeown in Manila.
Earlier this month, the BBC News website carried a story about a five-year-old boy in India who has become a policeman.
In this interview with the BBC, he profiles the pioneer of instant photography and chronicles the remarkable rise and ultimate fall of Polaroid itself.
BBC: The Polaroid genius who re-imagined the way we take photos
Ametetai is where Chadian troops said they killed top militant commander Abdelhamid Abou Zeid earlier this week, the BBC's Alex Duval Smith reports from the capital, Bamako.
To this day, the BBC continues to address Scotland, for the most part, as a nation, with full-time local broadcasting the exclusive preserve of the commercial and community sectors.
As part out coverage on innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia this week, the BBC's Shilpa Kannan travelled to the state of Haryana to visit a farmer who has benefited from the NIF's efforts.
"We are going to try to meet him to try to get to the bottom of this, " she told the BBC News website.
BBC: NEWS | South Asia | Child labour poster girl still working
The BBC announced in March this year that it was renaming part of BBC Broadcasting House after the late Radio 1 DJ.
But the BBC insisted that "the value and substantial savings created from the sale of BBC Technology and this procurement of our technology services is a significant step for us in ensuring the BBC is fit for the future".
The BBC filmed inside the house in 1967 and archive footage of this shown by BBC London on Tuesday has provided the only glimpse Miss Masterman has had, she admitted.
The symbol has been adopted by the conservative Tea Party movement, which organised this show of opposition, the BBC's Ben Wright in Washington reports.
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