tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post5467976170282249559..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Complaints from two sidesCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-35476479942431506172016-12-12T22:51:06.455+00:002016-12-12T22:51:06.455+00:00Yes. To the BBC the phrase is the perfect triple -...Yes. To the BBC the phrase is the perfect triple - whammy, with the added attraction that each of the three words can stand alone as a term of abuse. I wonder if Greg Dyke has thought of adding 'hideously elderly' & 'hideously male' to his notorious 'hideously white' comment!Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-49041610799288806712016-12-12T10:39:53.041+00:002016-12-12T10:39:53.041+00:00I made a formal complaint to the BBC about the sub...I made a formal complaint to the BBC about the substitution of 'militant' for 'terrorist' a couple of years ago - they gave me the usual BBC brush off. As many people have pointed out, they're busy re - writing the English language in the hope that we will no longer be able to express ideas of which they disapprove.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-67749865402661071542016-12-12T10:12:39.110+00:002016-12-12T10:12:39.110+00:00From a read-through of today's BBC News websit...From a read-through of today's BBC News website article about the FA, it appears that 'Elderly White Men' has become a term of derision from the BBC aimed at those who do not share their views - Leave voters, the old-and-out-of-touch, the racists from up-north, the Tory supporters, the UKIP supporters etc etc. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-57937243444887412832016-12-12T03:08:35.892+00:002016-12-12T03:08:35.892+00:00Mishal Moral Equivalence Rules apply.Mishal Moral Equivalence Rules apply.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-22677301988425934302016-12-12T00:18:13.544+00:002016-12-12T00:18:13.544+00:00It is both nauseating and reprehensible. But unsur...It is both nauseating and reprehensible. But unsurprising. The BBC values lives according to who kills them, and this is just another incidence of their editorial bent.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-4105900291117157242016-12-12T00:10:20.275+00:002016-12-12T00:10:20.275+00:00http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-382806...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38280627<br /><br />Isn't this nauseating BBC report totally reprehensible? Coptic Christians have been "hit" apparently. Can't they write headlines properly? Any objective human being would head it up "Fatal Terrorist Attack on Innocent Christian worshippers". Then when you read the story apparently "militants" were responsible...not murderers, not Jihadis, not Islamic extremists, not terrorists but "militants"...the same people who used to organise strikes at British Leyland in the 1970s. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-76849811764468785762016-12-11T23:53:50.418+00:002016-12-11T23:53:50.418+00:00Now that is hilarious. We know the QT producers re...Now that is hilarious. We know the QT producers reach out to activist groups if they think a certain viewpoint on the issue of the week isn't represented enough by the public applicant pool. They say it on the website and have said so elsewhere. The producer may very well have held their nose and contacted a non-Left group one week, or been doing so under instruction, or just done it because they know they can't rig the audiences against Brexit with very rare exceptions. We also know the BBC instructs staff to use social media for newsgathering and reaching out to the audience, so this is just standard practice, nothing to see here at all. At least, without further Facebook evidence, anyway.<br /><br />As for stacked (or un-stacked) panels, the week before your starter date, they had Keir Starmer on. For the five weeks in question, I see only one Tory Cabinet member (my knowledge may be lacking here). So expand the target by one week, and we have "balance". <br /><br />The thing is, I think it's fair to say that the division these days is between Brexit and Remain ('Soft' Brexit when it's at home), and not the usual Tory vs Labour dance. That seems to be the consensus from both Nick Robinson and Andrew Neil today. From this perspective, the panels have been weighted against real Brexit. <br /><br />If, on the other hand, the Canary muppets had made a complaint about Andrew Neil, I would agree with them wholeheartedly. David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-45625757976549273282016-12-11T23:08:15.708+00:002016-12-11T23:08:15.708+00:00Invariably when one examines the cries of bias fro...Invariably when one examines the cries of bias from the two sides one side complains that only policy 'X' is being pushed and the other side compains that policy 'X' isn't being pushed enough. The BBC calls that 'balance'. Whatever it is called it does mean that the alternative to policy 'X', policy 'Y', is never discussed, which is bias by omission.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-11806602721445500092016-12-11T22:06:22.356+00:002016-12-11T22:06:22.356+00:00Soggy left consensus is what the BBC pushes. Sogg...Soggy left consensus is what the BBC pushes. Soggy at home. Abroad, it can be quite hard, depending on what's in favour. Sometimes they are members of the war party...sometimes they put on their Peace Pledge sashes. They hate Corbyn not so much for his views but for fear he is making the main soggy left vehicle unelectable. <br /><br />I'm expecting some serious bigging up of Keir Starmer over the next few weeks. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com