There is also is what you might consider a more serious matter.

The BBC has often conflated easier MDG targets agreed in 2002 with
more ambitious (if in some ways more limited) Millennium Declaration
promises of 2000, and I know of no evidence that any BBC output has
noted the difference.

In my comments to the ECU on provisional response 1300394, I wrote:

"In More or Less of 10 March 2012...Unidentified speaker, apparently a
World Service newsreader or a person reading from a World Service news
script:   The United Nations says the first Millennium Development
Goal, halving the number of people who have no access to clean water,
has been reached before the target date of 2015.
Tim Harford:  Ruth Alexander's  with me.  Ruth, this is a really important goal.
Ruth Alexander:  Yes,  the Millennium Development Goals were agreed by
all the countries of the United Nations and the big aid agencies in
the year 2000. "
"More or Less makes a major error.  The MDG targets agreed by
consensus in 2002 are in fact easier than the pledges in the
Millennium Declaration of 2000.    The latter is a UN General
Assembly resolution.   A major difference is that the resolution's
pledges were not backdated, and are therefore to, for example halve
the proportion of people in 2000 on under "$1 ", not the 1990 level.
"....[The programme contradicted itself by saying it had scrutinised
the goal while confusing it with the more ambitious UN pledge. ] "

If you have inferred that I was requesting the ECU to treat this
particular complaint as part of the overall matter in the interests of
fairness, not least to those people to whom the commitments of 2000
were made, you are right.

Contrary to a common myth, the Declaration contains no reference at
all to 1990.   That is why I find no references to 1990 baselines in
BBC stories from 2000 about the Summit and Declaration.   I find no
references from 2000 in BBC articles to the phrase "Millennium
Development Goals" either.   The phrase was used in 2001 by the
Secretary-General in his "Road Map" document in relation to the
"proposed" goals, targets and indicators.
Declaration: Mortality rates reduced from "current rates":
http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.htm
MDG4: Mortality rates reduced from 1990 rates:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/MDGsOfficialList2008.pdf

This confusion appears to be widespread in BBC reports and analysis.
The BBC could play a useful role in correcting the misinformation and
thus enabling people to hold governments to account.

I have not yet gone through properly the editions of More or Less of
16 and 19 May on the World Bank poverty claims, but they may have this
same conflation.   I propose that the ECU listen to them.

 I expect many people tell the BBC their complaints are important.  I
stated in my comments of 6 February on your provisional response that
More or Less here made a major error.  The number of child deaths
2000-15 is likely to be over 90 million.  The rate went down between
the two baselines of 1990 and 2000.  You may not be surprised to hear
that the difference between steady progress on the Declaration
commitment and steady progress on the MDG target over the period
2000-15 amounts to several million child deaths.

I do not know if ECU staff, or editorial staff, have fully taken in
what I wrote.  As I say, I propose that in the interests of fairness,
not least to the people to whom the promises of 2000 were made, the
ECU consider this complaint along with the others.

I propose that a staff member let me know within perhaps a week the
ECU's considered view as to what this particular complaint is, so that
there is no misunderstanding.

Yours sincerely,