BBC bias

[Walsingham]

Jane Garvey's recollections of 2nd May 1997:

I do remember I walked back in - we were broadcasting then from Broadcasting House in the centre of London, all very upmarket in those days - and the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles.

http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2...thanks-to.html

Like most people I enjoy a fair bit of what the BBC does but it has to sort out the blatant centre-left agenda lurking behind a lot of its news and current affairs output.

It's like watching Fox News for guardianistas most of the time.

[Sysman]

This is also why so many people think The Grauniad supports Labour when it is, in fact, the only national newspaper that can lay any claim to lack of political partiality, and most certainly doesn't support Labour in the way that, say, the Mail and the Telegraph support the Conservatives. I know because I read it, and it prints many stories revealing discreditable truths about Labour - just as many, in fact, as about the Tories.

If you wind it back to the end of the last Conservative Government, I thought that the Guardian had rather lost the plot. They'd done a good job during the Thatcher and early Major years of providing broadsheet quality opposition, but seemed to fall into a limbo with New Labour. The hard left element (old timers?) there apparently didn't like New Labour. I stopped reading it about then.

Fortunately the Telegraph under Conrad Black stepped into the breach, changing from the too-right-wing-for-me rag that it had been to a more objective stye of reporting. It helped that they slashed prices to 10p in response to a price war with the Times when I was on the dole, and I always liked their crosswords.

The Telegraph has definitely gone downhill since the Barclay Brothers took it over.

[doodab]

The BBC have admited to a minor left wing bias. they say it is because their producers and presenters are often left wing. Lefties recruit more lefties..

Well given labour are the most right wing of the mainstream parties on quite a few issues at the moment I don't think we can necessarily accuse the BBC of favouring them.

[SueEllen]

It's like watching Fox News for guardianistas most of the time.

Odd then that my European friends who have a choice of what English language news programs they watch, watch BBC News.

Then personally I prefer watching Newsnight where all politicians are seen as not being truthful.

[d000hg]

If most people working somewhere are the same political view, what do you expect?

Although I find it strange that BBC presenters, who are highly paid middle-class folk, would be Labour supporters in general in the first place.

[Walsingham]

Odd then that my European friends who have a choice of what English language news programs they watch, watch BBC News.

And this proves what exactly?

[SueEllen]

Although I find it strange that BBC presenters, who are highly paid middle-class folk, would be Labour supporters in general in the first place.

They mostly come from the same universities, and were in the same or same sort of societies at university.

At one of the universities I went to I knew 2 of the presidents of the Student Union. They were both officially Labour supporters but I know when they both started uni they both supported and were active members of the Green Party.

Some people will support a party if it gets them the job and isn't detrimental to their lifestyle.

[The Wikir Man]

It does concern me that so many right-wingers seem to be very anti-BBC at the moment, probably beholden to Murdoch.

A couple of weeks ago (March 19th, now that I find it) , The Sun (prop. Mr R. Murdoch) was bleating about how the BBC had made Cameron look silly:

Last week bosses tried to make Mr Cameron look a laughing stock by putting out footage of him checking his hair in the wind before making a serious statement on Northern Ireland.

Umm, actually, the BBC found footage of Cameron preening himself on You Tube. Which had been broadcast by SKY NEWS (prop. Mr R. Murdoch). Obviously, broadcasting the footage was blatant bias by the BBC, and had nothing at all to do with their sister company. Oh no.

[The Wikir Man]

Of course, the BBC is also blatantly biased against the Tories (as the Sun points out, linked to above) by brainwashing our children via the means of Basil Brush.

Will someone please think of the children!!!

[Scary]

And this proves what exactly?

That mainland Europeans have generally socialist tendencies.