Does BBC = Biased (or Brown) Broadcasting Corp?

[Gunny Sergeant D]

I rely on the BBC as my primary source of news. I cant help but thinking they are so pro New Labour its embarrasing. A FT reporter was on Newsnight the last week and she pointed out that the economic situation was GB's making - Paxman cut her off instantly preferring to talk about something pro Labour.

Paul mason, Michael Crick and Robert Peston are all excellent. In my view this is Paxo & Robinson.


Am I imagining this?

[JagLover]

Gunny Sergeant D said:

Am I imagining this?

The BBC have had a soft-left bias for years

[B.J.W]

Gunny Sergeant D said:

I rely on the BBC as my primary source of news. I cant help but thinking they are so pro New Labour its embarrasing. A FT reporter was on Newsnight the last week and she pointed out that the economic situation was GB's making - Paxman cut her off instantly preferring to talk about something pro Labour.

Paul mason, Michael Crick and Robert Peston are all excellent. In my view this is Paxo & Robinson.


Am I imagining this?

Watch Newsnight this week and I suspect you will see an entirely different reaction from Jeremy (I earn well over 150k a year) Paxman.

[scotal]

Gunny Sergeant D]Robert Peston [is said:

excellent.

You're kidding.

[HRG]

JagLover said:

Gunny Sergeant D said:

Am I imagining this?

The BBC have had a soft-left bias for years

I watched the ITV news last night and was surprised how much more impartial it was... And that's from a working class channel

[Rico]

BBC's boss is the government. Sure, we pay the taxes that pay for it, but the government distribute the taxes.

Thus they're well under the thumb.

[Gun]

HRG said:

JagLover said:

Gunny Sergeant D said:

Am I imagining this?

The BBC have had a soft-left bias for years

I watched the ITV news last night and was surprised how much more impartial it was... And that's from a working class channel

Just don't get them started on MMGW, they seem to have a series of special reports every few weeks saying how we are killing all the polar bears or if we keep using our cars the whole world will be flooded because of the melting ice. I hate that Lawrence McGinty with a passion, the self obsessed little pk.

[tank slapper]

There is a whole blog dedicated to highlighting bbc bias. In my opinion it can be a bit over zealous at times, but they often have some good observations.

[JagLover]

Rico said:

BBC's boss is the government. Sure, we pay the taxes that pay for it, but the government distribute the taxes.

Thus they're well under the thumb.

It started well before Labour came to power.

[BigBen]

As I commented on another thread the newsreaders last night did not sound particularly pro-labour and were even using the correct terms such as 'your money' and 'massive gamble' as opposed to 'government money' and 'calculated risk' which I would have expected on past form

[NobleGuy]

I'm absolutely sick of Nicky 'Red' Campbell on five Live in the mornings. Couldn't be more biased if he tried....

[Thudd]

JagLover said:

It started well before Labour came to power.

I remember this. I interpreted it as a healthy criticism of the party in power, thus keeping them "honest" (and IIRC at the time the Tories were anything but).
However since Labour came to power the bias has remained the same.
This is anything but healthy IMO.

[MitchT]

Brown's Brainwashing Coalition is what I like to call it. Top Gear is their token non-lefty programme intended to maintain our belief that they're politically and socially impartial.

[Don]

You cannot trust BBC news.

I read the Telegraph precisely because it is so hilariously biased that it is obvious when it's happening and you can take it with a pinch of salt. The Beeb pretends to impartiality but is anything but.

[Yugguy]

Heh, watch CBeebies programmes made by the Beeb themselves and you'd think the population of Britain was 60% Asian, 30% black and 10% white.

[Gunny Sergeant D]

NobleGuy said:

I'm absolutely sick of Nicky 'Red' Campbell on five Live in the mornings. Couldn't be more biased if he tried....

Not heard him on 5. He is a gutter journalist in my opinion. I wish he understood objectivity

[neilr]

The BBC is the state owned broadcaster, so yes, of course its biased. Factor into that the fact that it's a fully left wing organisation that would probably prefer communism in this country and you get your answer.

It always makes me laugh when the BBC refer to other countries state bradcasters with a sneering "...[insert country here] state television is reporting this that and the other" as if no one has realised thats exactly what the BBC are.

If you want impartial news, then you have to get your info from several places and make your own mind up. Sadley the sheeple are happy with a situation of "this is the BBC viewpoint and now its yours as well" as it stops them having to think too hard about anything other than who should be voted off their favorite reality show.

There can't be many situations these days where the BBC is someones only source of english speaking news, but I guess there could be a few.

[Kieran XJR]

I've noticed Nick Robinson seems to be particularly biased lately.

A bit off topic but I saw Body Of Lies at the cinema last night, the terrorist were watching BBC news.

[Zod]

Los Angeles said:

Gunny Sergeant D said:

I rely on the BBC as my primary source of news. I cant help but thinking they are so pro New Labour its embarrasing. Am I imagining this?

Yes, as each generation imagines it is pro-the government of the day. It is in fact, chronically pro-British Establishment, all the way from MI6 to HRH.

I don't remember anybody thinking the BBC was pro-Tory between 1979 and 1997.

[maddog993]

Zod said:

Los Angeles said:

Gunny Sergeant D said:

I rely on the BBC as my primary source of news. I cant help but thinking they are so pro New Labour its embarrasing. Am I imagining this?

Yes, as each generation imagines it is pro-the government of the day. It is in fact, chronically pro-British Establishment, all the way from MI6 to HRH.

I don't remember anybody thinking the BBC was pro-Tory between 1979 and 1997.

It's governors certainly were - remember Mr Hussey?