Blogging about BBC bias, it seems only right to check out what other people are saying about it on Twitter.
Unfortunately, what they are saying tends to be complete nonsense.
Most tweets on the subject these days are endless variations on three themes: (1) that the BBC is anti-SNP, (2) that the BBC is anti-Corbyn, and (3) that the BBC is 'Tory'.
Obviously this week's 'Panama papers' coverage has been a very hot topic on Twitter. The anti-BBC leftists there have been out in force denouncing the BBC for downplaying the David Cameron angle or deflecting attention away from David Cameron or actively defending David Cameron.
Meanwhile Newswatch reported further criticism of the BBC - from the other side:
Mr. Cameron's father's unit trust was not illegal, nor untoward. So your aggressive criticism of his completely legal interest in it a few years ago is shrill and overstated. Its 'mob rule' approach demeans the BBC with its naked vitriol, and will discourage and alarm a number of law-abiding people who may have some small, but now extremely sensitive, connection though perfectly legitimate offshore interests.
'Complaints from both sides', of course.
I haven't watched or heard enough of the BBC's coverage to 'rule' in one side's favour or the other (though the coverage of the Cameron angle certainly isn't downplaying things now. Today was dominated by it this morning), but I did spot someone on Twitter complaining that Newsnight had invited on Toby Young to talk about Mr. Cameron's tax affairs (showing the folk at Newsnight to be #Tories). The fact that Labour's Tom Watson had just been interviewed by Newsnight immediately before Toby appeared didn't seem to register with the Twitterer.
If you don't frequent Twitter, that's what it's like there on the subject of BBC bias.
Update 12.00 The lefties on Twitter are now in full swarm against the BBC for not giving over the News Channel to live coverage of the protest in London calling on David Cameron to resign. They are also complaining that the BBC News website isn't leading with that protest (though it is leading with David Cameron's tax affairs). And they are spitting feathers that the Archbishop of Canterbury's DNA test was the 8.10 item on Today and has been the lead story on the BBC News Channel this morning. (They are calling it a diversionary tactic).
Meanwhile, a joke:
Update 12.00 The lefties on Twitter are now in full swarm against the BBC for not giving over the News Channel to live coverage of the protest in London calling on David Cameron to resign. They are also complaining that the BBC News website isn't leading with that protest (though it is leading with David Cameron's tax affairs). And they are spitting feathers that the Archbishop of Canterbury's DNA test was the 8.10 item on Today and has been the lead story on the BBC News Channel this morning. (They are calling it a diversionary tactic).
Meanwhile, a joke:
In an extraordinary development, David Cameron has discovered today that his father is Justin Welby, the present Archbishop of Canterbury.
