Bias from the BBC

Is the table fair though? Perhaps many others have been invited but chosen not to appear ? Or not been offered enough money to appear ?

I can’t stand that Dimbleby guy .

I quite agree Varian.

Over the years the BBC gave an inordinate amount of airtime to the likes of Farage, who wasn't even an MP at Westminster; and various ultra-radical Islamists who represented no-one but themselves.

Tom Mills, writing in the Independent-

"If the BBC wants to know why nearly a million listeners have dropped the Today programme, they might want to look at their political coverage first

An anxiety about appearing out of touch led some time ago to a conscious effort to engage with ‘extreme opinion’ – hence why Nigel Farage became such a popular choice for BBC bookers"

www.independent.co.uk/voices/bbc-radio-4-today-programme-listening-figures-john-humphries-a8474691.html

The Brexit Broadcasting Corporation has a lot to answer for. It may be no coincidence that the BBC audience is predominantly over 55 - and most of the same age group voted to leave the EU, just as in the USA the viwers of Fox News ooverwhelmingly voted for Trump.

Yesterday

Top news story by BBC

Duke of Edinburgh entered hospital for a scheduled operation on his hip

Top news in social media

Top scientists in Portland Down can’t link nerve gas to Russia

Is it any wonder that people are turning more and more to social media for their information?

Henry Porter, writing in today's Observor asks "is the BBC abdicating its responsibilities over brexit?"

"When the BBC is accused of bias, its reaction is always the same – executives and journalists protest that if all sides attack the BBC with equal force all the time then they must be doing something right. This plausible defence isn’t good enough when it comes to Brexit. As we enter the final year before the UK is due to leave the EU, there is a widely held belief among EU supporters that the BBC is guilty of something almost worse than bias – shutting down the story."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/01/bbc-abdicates-responsibility-on-brexit

Andrew Marr seems a bit more left wing in his views. Married to the daughter of Jack Ashley Labour MP and quite a “leftie” in his younger years. I would think he’s a Labour moderate now. His Sunday morning programme almost always has a careful balance of left and right wing interviewees. Though he gives Theresa May more respect in interviews than Corbyn and McDonnell.
Robert Peston (I know he’s ITV now but he still thinks he’s with the BBC) seems to have quite left wing views on the economy.

He was always old, was he?
I thought we were supposed to grow out of socialism as we grew older.

Andrew Neil was the chairman of the Conservative club at Glasgow University and has unfortunately never outgrown the political views he had as a young student.

Feedback today on radio 4. The top item was the complaint of total absence of reporting on Brexit marches last Saturday. The bbc was then grilled apparently. I must listen to it.

Andrew Neil is the chairman of Press Holdings group, which owns the Telegraph and Spectator. I presume his political affiliation has always been Tory.

And the use of an ardent right wing brexiteer to select the audience for Question Time

Lord Adonis states

32nd appearance of Farage on QT. BBC refusal to report anti-Brexit marches last Saturday. Vetoing of BBC chief execs of programmes criticising Brexit (of which more from Lord Adonis later). Constant bias of Today programme, convinces me that the BBC is in breach of its charter.

Emma Barnett used to be a journalist on Daily Telegraph and The Times both Tory papers. She defends the Tories and doesn’t question their lies about Labour’s economic record.

If Emma Barnett is a secret Tory how is it known ?

So now it’s not only Brexit that the BBC favours, but the Tories!
Anything else?

I used to admire the BBC and believed it gave unbiased news. However recently there seem to be many presenters who tow the Tory line. I think they’re worried about the Government changing the BBC funding. Perhaps they’ve been warned not to upset the Tories.
On the Today programme there is blatant pro Brexit and/or pro Tory bias. John Humphreys is a prime example, but Nick Robinson was a high flying Young Conservative, David Dimbleby lets Brexiteers speak far longer than Remainers, Andrew Neil usually takes the Tory line, even Jo Coburn this week has been very anti-Corbyn. Laura Kuenssberg has softened her anti-Corbyn sneers a bit recently. Emma Barnett is another secret Tory.
They all frequently fail to challenge blatant Tory lies and accept that Labour can’t manage the economy despite clear proof to the contrary. (Government debt for example).

The Press is biased, the BBC is biased , will Corbyn's next speech be - infamy , infamy, the've all got it infamy

only in the view of arch Remainers varian
The BBC is not at all biased and airs all sorts of interviews with all sorts of people.
Some are beginning to get paranoid about the BBC ( if it doesn’t favour what they themselves do.)

If there are any GNetters still watching BBC News and imagining they are still seeing an impartial balanced version of the news as it might have been when we were young, I would advise you to try watching Channel 4 - or almost any other news channel, then decide whether it just might be possible the BBC has become the Brexit Broadcasting Corporartion.

Viewers are beginning to complain that the BBC is out of control in its biased coverage

Oh that should reference A Campbell

Rees-Mogg will be giving a speech today and will be covered extensively by what used to be the BBC but is now the BBCJRMFarageTV

Wera Hobhouse LibDem MP for Bath was one of the speakers at the SW March for Europe in Exeter yesterday. If you know anyone who relies on the BBC to report important events, they might not have heard about this - so please pass it on.

A huge March yesterday in Exeter never mentioned by the BBC.- they thought it more important to film Farage chucking two dead fish in the Thames. Is this brexit-bias or London-bias or both?

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