BBC's alleged biased reporting on Cameron after EU summit
Did anyone watch or hear this alleged biased reporting?
Apparently it's still continuing.
I missed it.
Oops, I meant that I didn't watch or listen to the reporting.
I saw loads of it. In fact I'd go as far as to say it was disgusting. I remember watching the breakfast news, in the space of about half an hour they had a business editor, followed by some kind of economic analyst, followed by a labour MP all saying this would be bad for Britain with no alternative opinion. Is that supposed to be balanced and unbiased reporting!Originally Posted by bornfree
The road to hell is paved in good intention.
not much message about that now !Is that supposed to be balanced and unbiased reporting!
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain
The extraordinary bias of the BBC is as plain as day. It's become a bit like the sky... always there to the extent that you could be forgiven for not noticing it.
Newsnight was recently agonizing over the poor showing of Ed Miliband in various polls. In the context of this, they made various "statements of fact" about the current government and what is happening in the UK. None of these were actually "facts"... but the opinions of the presenters... and of the "research" monkeys.
That is how it is done. Goebbels would be proud.
There seems to be a foregone conclusion within the Beeb... and much of the media... that European Union is something that we should all want... however corrupt... however undemocratic... and however unresponsive the central institutions of such a union might be.
I fear that the only hope for any future impartiality and balance in the BBC depends upon that organization being thoroughly "gutted" and then re-populated with staff who are carefully vetted to ensure that they are English, capable of independent thought and have no political allegiance whatsoever.
I think the BBC usually bends over backwards to give balanced commentary. Just sometimes they balance out in a subsequent programme so you can't just look at a single programme in isolation.
Apart from the obvious fact that "bending over backwards" is hardly the way to achieve anything "balanced", I wait with interest to see when... assuming we all live long enough.... they "balance it out" in a "subsequent programme".
Supposedly the world ends in December 2012 so they better get a move on.
Here's an example from yesterday. Andrew Neil in Daily Politics yesterday. He was talking about how badly Ed Milliband was doing and how well Cameron was doing.
BBC iPlayer - Daily Politics: 14/12/2011
It's important to keep a sense of balance and not expect the BBC to support your views every time. It's just too easy to be selective and pick out things that support one prejudice or another. Better to keep an open mind in my view.
The BBC is far from balanced, they are the illusion of balance. They give balance on issues that don't really mater. How often did you see the BBC actively slag off George W Bush for his lies and behaviour, yet now Obama is in charge who has just carried on the Bush administrations policies and told lie after lie do the BBC give him the same condemnation. The EU reporting of corruption and scandals in the EU has been non existent. Nature loving childhood hero David Bellamy career at the BBC was ended because he would not tow the party line on global warming and their has been no debate at all on this subject.
The BBC and most of the media makes us politically like rat's in a laboratory maze as long as we don't know the world outside exists we are content in the prison.
The road to hell is paved in good intention.
As I said in my original post, I haven't watched any BBC news coverage of the EU summit etc.
Just one thing, I see that it's earned the tag of the 'Brussels Broadcasting Corporation' which I thought was pretty funny.
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