black is white - Labour claims Today biased towards Tories

[Zod]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/07/ben-br...

Hilarious. This is how paranoid Labour is becoming.

[Don]

Zod said:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/07/ben-br...

Hilarious. This is how paranoid Labour is becoming.

Labour accusing the BBC of Tory bias!?!?!?

WTF!?!?!?!

The Beeb have had their noses firmly embedded in Labour's arse for the last twelve years!

[Balmoral Green]

To a degree though, bias is in the eye of the beholder. If your man gets a grilling, it's bias. If the other guy gets a grilling, his fanboys will claim it's bias too.

As for PH, that's way, way beyond bias

[Morningside]

First it was 'The Sun' and now the BBC! All together now - Ahhhhh, poor didums.

It was fine when it was working the other way. Perhaps they will now bring back Campbell or use Mandleson to dig up some st on them. Or cut their public funding blaming them of public waste and out of touch.

ETA: Anyhow "culture secretary" is that some jumped up excuse of a position created for your mates?

Edited by Morningside on Wednesday 7th October 12:26

[TankRizzo]

This is also coming from Ben Bradshaw who comes from the Chocolate Fireguard stable of politicians.

[FNG]

As an aside, I've been reading the comments on another Grauniad article in disbelief.

One leftie said:

Yes we need to reign in public spending but actually cutting spending and jobs won't solve the problem. If you cut job (sic) you increase unemployment and that pushes public spending up again because of the increased numbers on the dole, and it also reduces the income tax revenue.

What does he think is more expensive - paying £25k p.a. to a public sector non-job holder from the public purse and recovering <20% of that back in income tax, or paying £64.50 a week to the same person from the public purse?

There's a few comments on there about Broon's lack of regulation and complicity with the City while the tax revenue was rolling in, and his failure to reverse the reduced VAT rate now that it's proven to have been an expensive failure: silence from the left wing.

Does silence mean they condone spending money unnecessarily while the debt mountain grows?

Delusional doesn't even begin to cover it.

[Eric Mc]

Bradshaw got a bit of a pasting on BBC's Question Time last week so he's probably feeling a bit put-upon by the BBC. He even got told off by Richard Dimbleby last Thursday.

[Johnnytheboy]

Oh that is good.

Most criticism of the Labour govt. (not necessarily on Today, but by general talking heads) on R4 has been that they aren't being left wing enough.

[XJR40]

I do think there's a slight but growing lean away from Labour in some parts of the media, not that I'm complaining mind.