BBC BIAS

jp · 24-10-2006, 10:19 PM

You will perhaps have seen the reports on BBC bias which were admitted by the BBC itself at an internal meeting. The Beeb tried to spin this by publishing a comment piece on their website by Helen Boden,

When I first saw it & commented about 12 hours ago it was linked from the front page. Now you have to dig for it, not surprising when you look at the balance of the comments:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditor...commentsanchor

jp · 25-10-2006, 09:33 PM

Good comment on this on a Blog I haven't seen before - "House of Dumb - Hating David Cameron Before It's Fashionable"

Who can resist with a byline like that

Quote:

Insane Right-Wing Mob Vindicated, Inane Left-Wing N*b Humiliated

Well, who’d have thunk it ? A BBC report admits that, actually, they are kind of biased after all. It’s our very own Berlin Wall moment.

Yes, that is a joke, but it’s not so far from the truth. Just like the East German Government, the BBC’s biggest asset has been its aura of immovability as though its existence was a fact of life: bad weather, disease, Liberals taking your money to call you a Nazi. Now, suddenly there is the first crack of daylight. To use a phrase appropriate to one of this month’s anniversaries: this might just be the end of the beginning.

Indeed, no issue exemplifies BBC bias like BBC bias. Critics of the BBC are derided as self-evidently insane. For years the BBC has been abusing its privileged position to push its own agenda, secure in the knowledge that it could crush any opposition - to use Lenin’s term, they controlled the telegraph stations. Suddenly, we can talk back and now we have BBC staff talking in terms that sound like the editors of B-BBC have beaten a confession out of them.

Above all else though, we must acknowledge how much the Tories have done to bring all this about. Or rather, we must acknowledge the nothing the Tories have done to bring this about. True, there has been the odd skirmish about isolated incidents, but the Tories have consistently recoiled from addressing the systemic bias of the BBC. Au contrair, when the Hutton Report came out, the Tories lined up behind the BBC’s absurd version of ‘fake but accurate’. As for the Cameron era, well, enough said.

Bottom line: if for the first time in its history the BBC is being forced to deal seriously with charges of bias, then that owes nothing to Cameron’s alleged elite. But don’t think this just shows how irrelevant the Tories are. No, there’s more to it than that. Cameron’s whole strategy is predicated on the idea that the Right can’t win in Britain. Instead, the Tory Party must accept its own version of managed decline, they’ve got to ‘go along to get along’. But suddenly here’s one of the Left’s key institutions having to give ground in the face of a bunch of butchers and bakers and candlestick makers from towns where you probably can’t even get a decent latte.

While Opus Dave have been trading away the family silver for a favourable profile in the Guardian, a grass roots campaign that’s the antithesis of everything Cameron stands for has made real progress. Draw your own conclusions

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http://houseofdumb.blogspot.com/2006...22389234932934

mkpdavies · 25-10-2006, 09:40 PM

Yeah, quite good.

Hate the way the word Liberal has been hijacked, why would a true liberal want you money? Not very liberal.

Plays on the left/right thing a bit, but to be fair a lot of people still play that game.

I have disliked the twonk since the day I saw him. I won't say hate, because he hasn't actually started any illegal wars or removed my freedoms yet, but he certainly has the potential to go on to that status.

I agree that just when Britain goes through one of it's patented phase shifts, the Tories are darting off to be like Labour. There that vacuum looking to be filled again.

jp · 27-10-2006, 08:37 AM

There is another good piece on BBC bias in the Telegraph today:

Quote:

It's fair to say the message is finally getting through: the BBC has a problem with impartiality. The row over BBC bias has been rumbling on longer than war in Sudan and always seemed just as unresolvable. The format was always the same: take a bunch of Left-leaning, liberal-minded television executives and a bunch of Right-leaning politics wonks with obsessions about BBC reporting of the Middle East, the EU and the Tory party. Then they hit each other over the head with rolled up, heavily underlined copies of programme transcripts from Newsnight or Today.

And this is a battle that the BBC has become very adept at fighting. Every time the clamour of bias on some particularly hard news issue, such as Israel, Iraq, or Brussels, gets too loud, the corporation commissions some research that finds no bias, or – next best – evidence of bias on both sides.

But no matter how much BBC bosses swear blind there is no problem, the issue refuses to go away. Why? Because for many licence-payers, the BBC's skewed assumptions about what the world is about and how its inhabitants should think is the most annoying thing about it

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m...ixopinion.html

This-England · 27-10-2006, 01:41 PM

The BBC has been in left wing hands for 40 years.

24-10-2006, 10:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
jp Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,002	BBC BIAS You will perhaps have seen the reports on BBC bias which were admitted by the BBC itself at an internal meeting. The Beeb tried to spin this by publishing a comment piece on their website by Helen Boden, When I first saw it & commented about 12 hours ago it was linked from the front page. Now you have to dig for it, not surprising when you look at the balance of the comments: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditor...commentsanchor

25-10-2006, 09:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 32,059 Party: Libertarian Party	Yeah, quite good. Hate the way the word Liberal has been hijacked, why would a true liberal want you money? Not very liberal. Plays on the left/right thing a bit, but to be fair a lot of people still play that game. I have disliked the twonk since the day I saw him. I won't say hate, because he hasn't actually started any illegal wars or removed my freedoms yet, but he certainly has the potential to go on to that status. I agree that just when Britain goes through one of it's patented phase shifts, the Tories are darting off to be like Labour. There that vacuum looking to be filled again. __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Lib Dems

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27-10-2006, 01:41 PM	#5 (permalink)
This-England Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,682	The BBC has been in left wing hands for 40 years.