Political bias at BBC - something has to be done surely

[SpeedMattersNot]

It's in the interest of the BBC to support the country, with those who voted the most. If the majority vote wasn't Labour, we'd see a different background colour to their news shows. The fact is, the blue team doesn't represent a majority...and paying for 2x types of paint (blue and yellow) would mean instead of £12 a month, the BBC would be £13 a month. Tough luck!

Mind you, this forum couldn't get more tory if it tried. Just look at all the blue...

...ooohhhh, that explains all the hate towards anyone who wasn't born into wealth and success, aahhhh of course

[davepoth]

SpeedMattersNot said:

It's in the interest of the BBC to support the country, with those who voted the most. If the majority vote wasn't Labour, we'd see a different background colour to their news shows. The fact is, the blue team doesn't represent a majority...and paying for 2x types of paint (blue and yellow) would mean instead of £12 a month, the BBC would be £13 a month. Tough luck!

Mind you, this forum couldn't get more tory if it tried. Just look at all the blue...

...ooohhhh, that explains all the hate towards anyone who wasn't born into wealth and success, aahhhh of course

Wow, that chip on your shoulder must really weigh heavily.

You know you don't have to be rich to be a Tory don't you? In the same way you don't need to have spent the last ten years on a picket line in a donkey jacket to be a Labour supporter?

Margaret Thatcher lived above a grocer's shop. John Major's father was an impoverished garden gnome maker. Edward Heath's dad was a carpenter.

Gordon Brown's father was a professional (Priest), Tony Blair's father was a professional (Lawyer/Lecturer) and James Callaghan's father was a senior NCO in the Navy.

Excepting the present incumbent, it seems more likely for Labour prime ministers to come from the ranks of the rich...

[mybrainhurts]

SpeedMattersNot said:

It's in the interest of the BBC to support the country, with those who voted the most. If the majority vote wasn't Labour, we'd see a different background colour to their news shows. The fact is, the blue team doesn't represent a majority...and paying for 2x types of paint (blue and yellow) would mean instead of £12 a month, the BBC would be £13 a month. Tough luck!

What a naive notion. The BBC has been rotten to the core with its leftism for years. Check your copy of the Guardian for BBC jobs...

SpeedMattersNot said:

Mind you, this forum couldn't get more tory if it tried.

You ought to be grateful there are people around here who support a party that isn't about bankrupting your country every time it's in power.

[thinfourth2]

chris watton said:

He (me) is so far up Cameron's arse that he joined UKIP

apologies I thought you were one of the majority that confuses the Tory party with a right wing party

[turbobloke]

On top of the Harrabin climate advocacy fiasco it now appears that Radio 4's Sarah Montague and Newsnight's Gavin Esler have been paid to speak at medical conferences organised by the NHS. Time for a register of biased BBC presenter interests.

[Globs]

http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

The Biased-BBC site, interesting reading, the BBC really do push their own warped agenda very hard.
It annoys me that I am forced to pay for it.

[thinfourth2]

Globs said:

http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

The Biased-BBC site, interesting reading, the BBC really do push their own warped agenda very hard.
It annoys me that I am forced to pay for it.

You aren't

There is no legal obligation to own a telly

Same as petrol tax you aren't force to pay it as you could take a bus

[null]

You are if you want to watch anyone else's output.

When I take a bus I'm not forced to tip a local cab driver.

[thinfourth2]

Well stop paying the license fee

its not exactly hard to avoid if you hate the BBC so much

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/

All they do is send out snotty letters

[turbobloke]

Better solution - sort the biased beeb.

[chris watton]

I think I will not renew my DD for the licence. Perhaps I am in the minority that thinks that £150 per year from virtually every household with a TV in the UK is not good value for money, given the choice we have with using other channels. I personally find it obscene that I help contribute to an organisation that wants to sell down the EU/climate change Treaty rivers. We seem to only get half the story all of the time.

The more I think about it, the more I realise just how little TV we now watch, as a family. I am normally working or on the PC – or when the TV is on, it’s through the HTPC watching BR/DVD’s or You Tube. If there are good programmes, I usually hear it from here and buy the box set anyway.

As I said, I am sure I am in the minority, but I do not see the BBC as ‘value for money’ – Not when you take into account the huge amount of free money they receive – I know that many think that their £150 is small change to watch a couple of their favourite programmes or radio station – but it’s not great when you consider that that is £150 each from how many UK households? And for what? To be told how great the public sector is, how magnificent the Labour party is (how many times do we see Ed Balls given a free platform for his pearls of wisdom per week?), how evil the private sector is – listening to local news with school kids aged 8 telling the BBC journos that they are learning about how climate change is killing the polar bears and it’s all our fault – and in the meantime, the elderly are suffering because they’re too scared to switch on their heating as the BBC propagate this guff..

Personally, I can really do without any of it (and I don’t think the kids watch anything from the BBC channels, and don’t listen to BBC radio – they have I-Pods..) – how relevant is live TV nowadays anyway? I like a few programmes, and I love 6 Music – but in all honesty, I wouldn’t miss them so much that my life would be made worse. In any case, I have 60GB of music on my HD.

In fact, the more I think about it, the more sense it makes to cancel my licence, it has become an irrelevance to me and my family. Other section of society will have a different view, but that is mine.

[thinfourth2]

turbobloke said:

Better solution - sort the biased beeb.

Then we can keep BBC4

Sadly a BBC without bias will still be seen as left wing here due to the extreme right wing bias

[chris watton]

turbobloke said:

Better solution - sort the biased beeb.

Personally, I think it's too far gone, and too set in its way to be sorted.

[turbobloke]

thinfourth2 said:

turbobloke said:

Better solution - sort the biased beeb.

Then we can keep BBC4

Sadly a BBC without bias will still be seen as left wing here due to the extreme right wing bias

We disagree. I would object to right wing bias in the BBC, and can spot impartiality very easily, just as easily as I detect bias. My view would be that others on here are more often the same. People on here express the view they do not because of bias.

That's for tribal lefties

[K12beano]

Eric Mc said:

The biggest Commie of them all -

A Coca Cola Commie.....

[chris watton]

thinfourth2 said:

turbobloke said:

Better solution - sort the biased beeb.

Then we can keep BBC4

Sadly a BBC without bias will still be seen as left wing here due to the extreme right wing bias

"extreme right wing bias"

What do mean by that, do you mean we are all immigrant hating, black hating Neanderthals who want all non-whites sent to the gas chamber? That’s the sort of image that is conjured when you casually drop in the “Extreme” bit.
If that is not the case, can you please offer us your definition of “Extreme Right Wing” means to you?

[chris watton]

turbobloke said:

thinfourth2 said:

turbobloke said:

Better solution - sort the biased beeb.

Then we can keep BBC4

Sadly a BBC without bias will still be seen as left wing here due to the extreme right wing bias

We disagree. I would object to right wing bias in the BBC, and can spot impartiality very easily, just as easily as I detect bias. My view would be that others on here are more often the same. People on here express the view they do not because of bias.

That's for tribal lefties

That's just it! No-one's asking for special preferences either way, just more balance - nothing more!

[Sticks.]

chris watton said:

thinfourth2 said:

turbobloke said:

Better solution - sort the biased beeb.

Then we can keep BBC4

Sadly a BBC without bias will still be seen as left wing here due to the extreme right wing bias

"extreme right wing bias"

What do mean by that, do you mean we are all immigrant hating, black hating Neanderthals who want all non-whites sent to the gas chamber? That’s the sort of image that is conjured when you casually drop in the “Extreme” bit.
If that is not the case, can you please offer us your definition of “Extreme Right Wing” means to you?

Probably like this, from p2

Wadeski said:

PH general opinion is way, way to the right of national opinion. Its not surprising the BBC does not reflect it.

Anyone got a definitive answer to this?

Fittster said:

Can anyone name a news source that wouldn't consider to be biased by either the left or right?

Re Nick Robinson, he has come in for criticsm before for being pro-Tory. I think he's a professional journalist but given he'd an open goal here with Justine Greening, who clearly didn't know what she was talking about, but didn't press her on anything, some may say not http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUEK_21iWmc

The question was raised earlier asking if it's such a big issue, why hasn't the Gov't done something about it? In the climate created by the NoW etc it would be easy to push through under the banner of cleaning up the media. Anyone know?

[chris watton]

Sticks. said:

Probably like this, from p2

Wadeski said:

PH general opinion is way, way to the right of national opinion. Its not surprising the BBC does not reflect it.

"way to the right of national opinion"

Says who? Is PH really "way to the right of national opinion" - or is that the age-old trick of trying to perceive that one view is greater than another, by simply suggesting it with nothing much to back up that statement?

ETA - We were told that the 'Majority' wanted AV, and that the 'progressive majority' in the UK demanded it - what happened in reality? They wern't really the 'majority, were they - quite the opposite, in fact.
We are told that 'national opinion' would be behind the PS strikes. In reality, what happened?

So to say "PH is way to the right of national opinion" doesn't hold much water, does it?

Edited by chris watton on Sunday 11th December 11:29

[Sticks.]

I've no reason to think there was an intent to trick, it was an opinion, like yours or mine.

I can't say about national opinion, but as someone who's never voted any other way but Cons, I've been called a leftie. Though, to be fair, it is often used as a meaningless standard insult to ayone who disagrees with the mainstream NPE view. As has been said before, the views of a vociferous few aren't necessarily that of the majority (not a personal dig at anyone)