tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post2036886855352707789..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Keeping Tabs on BBC One's 'News at Six'Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-29252702716432600822016-05-15T16:34:27.108+01:002016-05-15T16:34:27.108+01:00They really don't care do they? I think for th...They really don't care do they? I think for the BBC, this is something akin to The Great Patriotic War for the Soviet Union. <br /><br />As far as they are concerned, it's do or die, and they are all happy to be rounded up and shot for being partisans (or in their terms, a slap on the wrist from Ofcom). <br /><br />They must see the greater danger of a Leave victory - not the sorts of "risks" that Cameron talks about - but the risks to their health, wealth and wellbeing. I think they can see that upon a Leave victory there would be a risk of a democratic revolution against political correctness. Whatever might have been agreed about the BBC now could easily be unpicked by a radical Johnsonian government. Who knows where it might lead? We could end up with a Swiss style democracy which would be the death knell for political correctness. I think they just all smell danger and in an act of collective cognitive dissonance manage to ignore the oturageous bias they are displaying. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-65680653063263092772016-05-15T14:32:53.029+01:002016-05-15T14:32:53.029+01:00Yes, I noted that last time I did this:
http://is...Yes, I noted that last time I did this:<br /><br />http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/keeping-tabs-on-bbc-ones-news-at-six.html<br /><br />And if the BBC leads this evening's bulletin with 'Boris Johnson has been widely condemned for comparing the EU with Hitler', that will be another one that probably ought to go as a Remain item.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-13158979410293235072016-05-15T14:29:48.192+01:002016-05-15T14:29:48.192+01:00It seems there's another layer to this. Two of...It seems there's another layer to this. Two of the three Leave items are main Leave voices criticizing something the Remain campaign has done, while all of the Remain items are campaign messages in some form. The third Leave item is Farage criticizing his own side, and I'd suggest that this is in fact part of the Leave Splits! narrative and should in fact be counted as either neutral or yet another Remain item.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.com