Monday 17 April 2017

Overheard...


Here's a Twitter conversation this morning which I 'overheard'. Note how the 'complaints from both sides' trope gets taken up by the BBC defender:
Yvonne Johnston: Good to have @BBCMoreOrLess back on the radio. At least for those of us prepared to sort the data wheat from the chaff.
MsJones: True. But it doesn't become him when he defends the BBC against bias. It's his mates at the BBC.
Yvonne Johnston: It's on a BBC radio station but I understand the programme is made under the auspices of the OU.
MsJones: I trust the OU to be objective and neutral. But I don't understand why @TimHarford felt the need to defend the BBC against bias.
Yvonne Johnston: ‏But he does have a point that both the right and the left seem convinced that the BBC is biased against them. Are they both correct?
MsJones: That is surely a sign the BBC fails to achieve balance. If both sides of the argument were put in the same programme then would be unbiased.

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  1. Complaints From Both Sides is a sure sign the BBC has failed to achieve balance? That doesn't even make sense.

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    1. Quite. Neither of them can conceive that it's possible for the BBC to be biased in various directions against the Right, Scottish nationalists and the far-Left (for example) whilst at the same time being biased in favour of the soggy left-liberal Establishment 'centre'.

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