Political bias at BBC - something has to be done surely
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Johnnytheboy said:
Smiler. said:
BBC love-in with media & "artistic" luvvies discussing Brexit.
Where would we be now without them winning wars & defeating the baddies?
#itwasallfatcher
Can now add Wayne Hemmingway to that punching in the face thread
Oh God, that was painful. They managed to find one luvvie who had voted leave, and she was a cardboard cutout Angry Black Woman. Where would we be now without them winning wars & defeating the baddies?
#itwasallfatcher
Can now add Wayne Hemmingway to that punching in the face thread
The whole theme was so virulently anti-Tory it was just comical. Various comments about Thatcher as expected, 1997 described as a "new era of optimism" etc., it just went on and on.
Radio 4 presenter Jane Garvey commenting on the Bliar 1997 result said:
...the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. I’ll always remember that...
turbobloke said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Smiler. said:
BBC love-in with media & "artistic" luvvies discussing Brexit.
Where would we be now without them winning wars & defeating the baddies?
#itwasallfatcher
Can now add Wayne Hemmingway to that punching in the face thread
Oh God, that was painful. They managed to find one luvvie who had voted leave, and she was a cardboard cutout Angry Black Woman. Where would we be now without them winning wars & defeating the baddies?
#itwasallfatcher
Can now add Wayne Hemmingway to that punching in the face thread
The whole theme was so virulently anti-Tory it was just comical. Various comments about Thatcher as expected, 1997 described as a "new era of optimism" etc., it just went on and on.
Radio 4 presenter Jane Garvey commenting on the Bliar 1997 result said:
...the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. I’ll always remember that...
Digga said:
The BBC are 'owned' they just don't all know it. The idea of independence has long since been hijacked, sadly, although I do actually wonder, given the post-war environment, when the BBC was first established, whether it were anything other than a continuation of the huge, wartime propaganda machine.
Your lack of historical Knowledge on the subject is proof positive that your views are based in confirmation bias.Didn't see the IMF's Internal Evaluation Office report saying their approach to the Euro and Greece was fundamentally flawed anywhere on the Beeb website. Can't think why, was headline (OK, a bit OTT headline) elsewhere:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/07/28/imf...
(Slightly less self-congratulatory from Reuters here):
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-imf-greece-audit-...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/07/28/imf...
(Slightly less self-congratulatory from Reuters here):
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-imf-greece-audit-...
The news on the Today programme this morning reported that students will no longer be able to get grants for accommodation costs, and that it was "expected to hit poorer students hardest". I couldn't work out if it was bias or just a statement of the absolutely-bleeding-f
king-obvious.
king-obvious.The BBC takes a Tern for the worse.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-36916...
"What we don't know is what goes on out in west Africa in the winter but it is something to do with the climate.........."
So essentially they report, no one has any idea whatsoever why Little Tern numbers are down, but it's definitely climate! OF COURSE IT IS, EVERYTHING IS CLIMATE OR BREXIT! Maybe looking at the foot of some turbines might solve the mystery of the vanishing birds.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-36916...
"What we don't know is what goes on out in west Africa in the winter but it is something to do with the climate.........."
So essentially they report, no one has any idea whatsoever why Little Tern numbers are down, but it's definitely climate! OF COURSE IT IS, EVERYTHING IS CLIMATE OR BREXIT! Maybe looking at the foot of some turbines might solve the mystery of the vanishing birds.
Mr GrimNasty said:
The BBC takes a Tern for the worse.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-36916...
"What we don't know is what goes on out in west Africa in the winter but it is something to do with the climate.........."
So essentially they report, no one has any idea whatsoever why Little Tern numbers are down, but it's definitely climate! OF COURSE IT IS, EVERYTHING IS CLIMATE OR BREXIT! Maybe looking at the foot of some turbines might solve the mystery of the vanishing birds.
Yep let's blame the brexiteers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-36916...
"What we don't know is what goes on out in west Africa in the winter but it is something to do with the climate.........."
So essentially they report, no one has any idea whatsoever why Little Tern numbers are down, but it's definitely climate! OF COURSE IT IS, EVERYTHING IS CLIMATE OR BREXIT! Maybe looking at the foot of some turbines might solve the mystery of the vanishing birds.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/04/the-mat...
This morning's coverage of the MP boundary changes on Radio 4 has been textbook BBC.
They have not (and I've been listening on and off since 0630) once mentioned that the existing set up means there is an inherent bias.
They have repeatedly said Labour is the "biggest loser", and the only Tories they have interviewed on the subject have been ones that aren't happy because they are likely to lose their seat.
They have not (and I've been listening on and off since 0630) once mentioned that the existing set up means there is an inherent bias.
They have repeatedly said Labour is the "biggest loser", and the only Tories they have interviewed on the subject have been ones that aren't happy because they are likely to lose their seat.
Johnnytheboy said:
This morning's coverage of the MP boundary changes on Radio 4 has been textbook BBC.
They have not (and I've been listening on and off since 0630) once mentioned that the existing set up means there is an inherent bias.
They have repeatedly said Labour is the "biggest loser", and the only Tories they have interviewed on the subject have been ones that aren't happy because they are likely to lose their seat.
I haven't been able to listen to as much coverage as you, but I thought John Humphrys gave the Labour bloke a reasonably hard time over Jeremy Corbyn's response to the proposed changes. I was quite taken aback.They have not (and I've been listening on and off since 0630) once mentioned that the existing set up means there is an inherent bias.
They have repeatedly said Labour is the "biggest loser", and the only Tories they have interviewed on the subject have been ones that aren't happy because they are likely to lose their seat.
Johnnytheboy said:
This morning's coverage of the MP boundary changes on Radio 4 has been textbook BBC.
They have not (and I've been listening on and off since 0630) once mentioned that the existing set up means there is an inherent bias.
They have repeatedly said Labour is the "biggest loser", and the only Tories they have interviewed on the subject have been ones that aren't happy because they are likely to lose their seat.
And yet on the evening TV news it was mentioned several times that the current set up favours Labour.They have not (and I've been listening on and off since 0630) once mentioned that the existing set up means there is an inherent bias.
They have repeatedly said Labour is the "biggest loser", and the only Tories they have interviewed on the subject have been ones that aren't happy because they are likely to lose their seat.
eccles said:
Johnnytheboy said:
This morning's coverage of the MP boundary changes on Radio 4 has been textbook BBC.
They have not (and I've been listening on and off since 0630) once mentioned that the existing set up means there is an inherent bias.
They have repeatedly said Labour is the "biggest loser", and the only Tories they have interviewed on the subject have been ones that aren't happy because they are likely to lose their seat.
And yet on the evening TV news it was mentioned several times that the current set up favours Labour.They have not (and I've been listening on and off since 0630) once mentioned that the existing set up means there is an inherent bias.
They have repeatedly said Labour is the "biggest loser", and the only Tories they have interviewed on the subject have been ones that aren't happy because they are likely to lose their seat.
Johnnytheboy said:
eccles said:
Johnnytheboy said:
This morning's coverage of the MP boundary changes on Radio 4 has been textbook BBC.
They have not (and I've been listening on and off since 0630) once mentioned that the existing set up means there is an inherent bias.
They have repeatedly said Labour is the "biggest loser", and the only Tories they have interviewed on the subject have been ones that aren't happy because they are likely to lose their seat.
And yet on the evening TV news it was mentioned several times that the current set up favours Labour.They have not (and I've been listening on and off since 0630) once mentioned that the existing set up means there is an inherent bias.
They have repeatedly said Labour is the "biggest loser", and the only Tories they have interviewed on the subject have been ones that aren't happy because they are likely to lose their seat.
They already knew, but wanted most of the day's worth of spin on the story before any reality crept in.
Covering or not covering, the main story or well down the list, timing, all that sort of toady stuff is grist to the mill.
I think it's all the headline stuff that is polished up to prove a point or nudge people's thinking, the in depth analysis can be contradictory but it's the headline that counts (just as in print).
Cameron's getting a pasting today over Libya, but I'm wondering why Hague isn't pilloried as Foreign Sec at the time and apparently i/c policy (and if Cameron over-rules you walk and throw your toys out of the pram a la Robin Cook).
I've heard the Beeb are to roll out Chris Evans doing a cooking show too...
Cameron's getting a pasting today over Libya, but I'm wondering why Hague isn't pilloried as Foreign Sec at the time and apparently i/c policy (and if Cameron over-rules you walk and throw your toys out of the pram a la Robin Cook).
I've heard the Beeb are to roll out Chris Evans doing a cooking show too...
The latest unemployment show another fall. Excellent news, one would think.
Not if you work at the BBC.
Not if you work at the BBC.
BBC said:
No 'Brexit effect' in latest jobs data
Read the biased article here...Edited by don4l on Wednesday 14th September 21:50
Surely just quoting the economist from the article
"Kallum Pickering, an economist at Berenberg, said: "Although it is still early days, the UK labour market is yet to show any Brexit effect for the period immediately before and after the June 23 vote.""
and then balanced out by
Ben Brettell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "The UK's labour market proved resilient in the immediate aftermath of the vote to leave the EU, ONS data has shown.
"This is the latest piece of evidence which shows the economy has fared better than expected since June's referendum."
But anyways, Biased Bolshevik Communists
"Kallum Pickering, an economist at Berenberg, said: "Although it is still early days, the UK labour market is yet to show any Brexit effect for the period immediately before and after the June 23 vote.""
and then balanced out by
Ben Brettell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "The UK's labour market proved resilient in the immediate aftermath of the vote to leave the EU, ONS data has shown.
"This is the latest piece of evidence which shows the economy has fared better than expected since June's referendum."
But anyways, Biased Bolshevik Communists
don4l said:
st unemployment show another fall. Excellent news, one would think.
Not if you work at the BBC.
Not if you work at the BBC.
BBC]No 'Brexit effect' in latest jobs data[/b said:
Seems the BBC are better at quoting than you are.greygoose said:
don4l said:
st unemployment show another fall. Excellent news, one would think.
Not if you work at the BBC.
Seems the BBC are better at quoting than you are.Not if you work at the BBC.
BBC said:
No 'Brexit effect' in latest jobs data
Read the biased article here...gizlaroc said:
And you..... 
Anyway, HTH a bit.
greygoose said:
don4l said:
st unemployment show another fall. Excellent news, one would think.
Not if you work at the BBC.
Seems the BBC are better at quoting than you are.Not if you work at the BBC.
BBC said:
No 'Brexit effect' in latest jobs data
Read the biased article here...Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff