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11/09/2008: "BBC are not to be trusted!"
why? have some examples....
example 1: have your say
DEBATE:Is bias 'blocking British Obama'?
SENT:08-Nov-2008 11:37
COMMENT:the only bias in british politics im concerned with, is the way the BBC are not holding the current government to account and reporting the facts, that the public wont find out until after they have gone!
COMMENT STATUS:Rejected
* after posting this, and people recommended it, it was removed a couple of hours later, on the grounds that it broke the BBC house rules
house rules are - abusive wording, racist or sexist comments, naming individuals, personal attacks.
please explain how this broke house rules BBC i asked - the BBC have failed to answer or reinstate the post!
example 2: biased reporting
george osborne affair, was reported extensively on the BBC news channel, for 48 hours it was the lead story every hour, it was given 6 minutes of airtime, involving various comments from BBC staff reported as news.
every half hour, the headline summary, it was again the lead story.
after 1 day, osborne was cleared of any wrong doing by a political watchdog, who stated he had no case to answer and had not done anything wrong.
for days after, osborne was all over the BBC news website, the osborne reference and questions posted by BBC commentators, out numbered mandelson stories by 7 to 1.
lord mandelson's role however was a little more intriguing!
- he only visited the yacht (then changed to reveal he stayed on the yacht as a guest)
- when he told us hed first met the russian billionaire, was then changed to some years earlier once the media questioned this
- the european union had checked there was no conflict of interest and that nothing inappropriate had taken place, was then discovered that his own staff had checked his account of dealings and conversations out, and the european commission did not know he had stayed with the russian billionaire years earlier
the BBC then asked him in front of the cameras, which he refused to answer several times, despite this the BBC dropped the story.
the osborne affair is still posted on nick robinsons website blog today, from oct 21st, oct 22nd, oct 23rd, the head of BBC news has even had to release a statement about the bias reporting after newspapers attacked their reporting, the comments left by more than 1000 posters on that statement make interesting reading!
example 3: more biased reporting
the glenrothes by-election - the BBC news and website reported that it was "a shock win for labour" and that the result "was totally unpredicted!"
yet not 3 days earlier, the BBC reported that upto 3 weeks earlier, the word was from people who worked inside the cabinet office, that labour would win it.
example 4: biased reporting again!
"political pressure has persuaded the banks to pass on the full 1.5% interest rate cut!"
utter tosh!
the banks have only passed this on to a select band of mortgage holders and would be buyers, the vast majority will see no change in the interest rate they pay!
the banks have given a little ground, mainly due to the newspapers and the campaigns they have all front paged about how they are ripping people off by not passing the cut on, which coincidently, all came out the same day as the cuts were passed onto some mortgage payers.
example 5: labour party connections to the BBC (thankyou to dirtydorothy for the list)
- Chairman Gavin Davies (later Labour adviser)
- Chairman Sir Michael Lyons (previously Labour council chief)
- Director General John Birt (later Labour adviser)
- Director General Greg Dyke (previously Labour donor and candidate)
- C.O.O Caroline Thomson (previously Roy Jenkin's aide)
- Head of Political Research Bill Bush (later Labour spin doctor)
- Deputy Head of Political Research Catherine Rimmer (later Labour spin doctor)
- Director of Strategy Ed Richards (later Labour spin doctor)
- Head of Corporate Planning James Purnell (now Labour Minister)
- Head of Northern Ireland News Tom Kelly (later Labour spin doctor)
- Scottish News Editor Tim Luckhurst (previously Labour spin doctor)
- Political News Editor Joy Johnson (later Labour spin doctor)
- Political Editor Andrew Marr (student Labour organiser)
- Home News Editor Celia Barlow (now Labour MP)
- Head of European Affairs Chris Bryant (now Labour MP)
- Newsnight Producer Phil Woolas (now Labour Minister)
- Foreign Correspondent Martin Sixsmith (later Labour spin doctor)
- Current Affairs Reporter Ben Bradshaw (now Labour Minister)
- Current Affairs Reporter Lance Price (later Labour spin doctor)
- "Question Time" Editor Gill Penlington (previously Labour researcher)
so the next time you watch a BBC news report, just ask yourself, are they really independant and reporting the news, or are they spinning for the labour party???
