If there's one thing you can say about the Twitter feed of Jonathan Munro, the BBC's Head of Newsgathering, is that it's ultra-loyal to the BBC. If there's praise for the BBC or a defence of the BBC, he'll tweet about it.
That said, he did tweet a link to an article about BBC bias that does contain some criticisms of the BBC and whose conclusions are:
So the evidence from the research is clear. The BBC tends to reproduce a Conservative, Eurosceptic, pro-business version of the world, not a left-wing, anti-business agenda.
Inevitably, Mr Munro of the BBC, links (without comment) to far-left Cardiff University academic Mike Berry's piece at The Conversation.
Hard Evidence: how biased is the BBC? http://t.co/LwDFxvIyLt via @ConversationUK
— Jonathan Munro (@jonathancmunro) May 10, 2015
It's an article countless left-wingers on Twitter (including Owen Jones and Jon Donnison) have been tweeting about and re-tweeting for nigh on two years.
And now here's the BBC's Head of Newsgathering recommending it to the world on Twitter.
Presumably he did so in order to 'prove' that the BBC gets criticism from both sides and must, therefore, be getting it about right.
The fact that Mike Berry's piece was based (as we've pointed out before) on a debunked, BBC-funded study written by a collection of far-left wing academics and people with close links to the BBC won't stop people like him from using it to serve their own purposes.
And because it comes from Cardiff University's huge media department and the BBC relies on the Cardiff University's media department for much of its 'independent' research, it doubtless sounds authoritative enough to be believed by people who haven't thought to stand back from it and scrutinise it.
It's not very impressive, therefore, that Jonathan Munro is using Mike Berry's article in this way, is it?
Mr Munro's own latest tweet, if you were wondering, is this:
Mr Munro's own latest tweet, if you were wondering, is this:
So UKIP's only MP says #Farage needs to take a break. All going well then.
— Jonathan Munro (@jonathancmunro) May 15, 2015
#bbcbias?
