Political bias at BBC - something has to be done surely

Political bias at BBC - something has to be done surely

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TTwiggy

11,500 posts

203 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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turbobloke said:
TTwiggy said:
XCP said:
How is laying out his beliefs attacking him? More like a party political broadcast for one man I would have thought.
The same biased BBC who have had Nigel Farage on QT 11 times.
Meaningless.

They've had Dimbleby on even more times.
You're slipping. A better riposte might have mentioned Caroline Flint's 13 appearances.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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TTwiggy said:
turbobloke said:
TTwiggy said:
XCP said:
How is laying out his beliefs attacking him? More like a party political broadcast for one man I would have thought.
The same biased BBC who have had Nigel Farage on QT 11 times.
Meaningless.

They've had Dimbleby on even more times.
You're slipping. A better riposte might have mentioned Caroline Flint's 13 appearances.
Not when I could wait for you to do the job for me, then I can mention the 22 appearances of Labour luvvies Douglas Alexander and Diane Abbott, 11 each.

Party totals as of March were 184 Labour and 181 Tory.

The audience, the questions and how people are dealt with is a better indicator. For example they could invite Corbyn on 12 times in a row just to take the piss out of him.

TTwiggy

11,500 posts

203 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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turbobloke said:
Party totals as of March were 184 Labour and 181 Tory.
How does that happen then? I thought there was always one person from each of the two major parties? Illness? Double-booking? BOGOF offers?

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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TTwiggy said:
turbobloke said:
Party totals as of March were 184 Labour and 181 Tory.
How does that happen then? I thought there was always one person from each of the two major parties? Illness? Double-booking? BOGOF offers?
You can blame The Guardian if you need to apportion blame smile


tangerine_sedge

4,699 posts

217 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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TTwiggy said:
How does that happen then? I thought there was always one person from each of the two major parties? Illness? Double-booking? BOGOF offers?
Torys have been in government for a long time, sometimes government doesn't like to have a target up there?

Esseesse

8,969 posts

207 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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tangerine_sedge said:
Are you pointing out that they have a dig at left wingers too?

I don't think the BBC have a bias only against anything that appears to be 'right'. They have a bias against anything that isn't 3rd way (Blairite, this includes Cameron).

I think this is why both the left and the right complain of bias. The right perceive 3rd way politics as the modern ivory tower trendy liberal lefty (i.e. left but significantly distinct from old fashioned left). The left seem to perceive 3rd way politics as some form of soft Toryism.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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Esseesse said:
tangerine_sedge said:
Are you pointing out that they have a dig at left wingers too?
There was a good dig at Miliband recently. Isolated instances, even two or three, prove nothing - years and years of their track record tell the story including confessions from the inside - as detailed in the BBC Bias thread and repeatedly ignored by the beeb's apologists.


2hoots

57 posts

101 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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turbobloke said:
The audience, the questions and how people are dealt with is a better indicator.
But entirely subjective.

TTwiggy

11,500 posts

203 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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turbobloke said:
There was a good dig at Miliband recently. Isolated instances, even two or three, prove nothing - years and years of their track record tell the story including confessions from the inside - as detailed in the BBC Bias thread and repeatedly ignored by the beeb's apologists.
'confessions', 'apologists' - good lord man it's a bloody broadcaster, not ISIS.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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TTwiggy said:
turbobloke said:
There was a good dig at Miliband recently. Isolated instances, even two or three, prove nothing - years and years of their track record tell the story including confessions from the inside - as detailed in the BBC Bias thread and repeatedly ignored by the beeb's apologists.
'confessions', 'apologists' - good lord man it's a bloody broadcaster, not ISIS.
Blimey, I may take a catholic approach with forms of expression at times but you need to keep your zucchetto on.

XCP

16,875 posts

227 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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Curse you, I had to look that up tongue out

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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XCP said:
Curse you, I had to look that up tongue out
hehe

Far better hatted than tonsured.

tangerine_sedge

4,699 posts

217 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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turbobloke said:
Esseesse said:
tangerine_sedge said:
Are you pointing out that they have a dig at left wingers too?
There was a good dig at Miliband recently. Isolated instances, even two or three, prove nothing - years and years of their track record tell the story including confessions from the inside - as detailed in the BBC Bias thread and repeatedly ignored by the beeb's apologists.
The BBC has always attacked both sides, but it's funny how the right wing zealots only see what they want to see.

eatcustard

1,003 posts

126 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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tangerine_sedge said:
The BBC has always attacked both sides, but it's funny how the right wing zealots only see what they want to see.
Wow the BBC are giving the commie a hard time. The BBC is still very leftwing

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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eatcustard said:
tangerine_sedge said:
The BBC has always attacked both sides, but it's funny how the right wing zealots only see what they want to see.
Wow the BBC are giving the commie a hard time. The BBC is still very leftwing
It sure is, plenty of BBC people say so.

Amazingly, left-wingers who could spot a biased semicolon in the DM fail to spot massive bias in the BBC.

Not so amazingly, right wingers can see both.

Bias in any direction in a supposedly neutral and impartial national broadcaster remains a disgrace. It happens to be left-wing bias.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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anonymous said:
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yes

Very cosy.

The BBC paid her ex, convicted criminal and global warming true believer Huhne, a fee for an 8 minute appearance...contrary to their own guidelines.

Pryce gets a sentence or two served up in The Guardian, the BBC's operating bible.

mondeoman

11,430 posts

265 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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This has probably been done before, but I only saw it today...
The BBC 'must be fair to Isis': Head of broadcaster rejects calls to stop using term 'Islamic State'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-...

Esseesse

8,969 posts

207 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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mondeoman said:
This has probably been done before, but I only saw it today...
The BBC 'must be fair to Isis': Head of broadcaster rejects calls to stop using term 'Islamic State'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-...
Article said:
In a response to a letter signed by 120 MPs demanding that the BBC stop using the term on the grounds it gives undue credibility to the Islamic extremists, Lord Hall of Birkenhead warned that using an alternative would be “pejorative”...

...It was signed by influential figures such as Boris Johnson and Alex Salmond and backed by David Cameron, who earlier this week expressed frustration at the BBC's continued use of the term.
WTF, haven't our MP's got more important things to worry about than this? Someone/thing leaning on them? Weird.

The Don of Croy

5,975 posts

158 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Did anyone see this nugget last month?





- which is factually correct, but perhaps not as nuanced as the later version which read 'Palestinian kills two Israelis in Old City'.

Is it bias or just seeing what we want to see?

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