tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post1433492584782402833..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Andrew and Tommy showCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-90276788555950135212013-06-23T11:08:41.392+01:002013-06-23T11:08:41.392+01:00My partner came in halfway through but luckily we ...My partner came in halfway through but luckily we can rewind So He Watched it from the beginning. Andrew Neal continually interrupted, So Intent On Getting All his questions in but then he changed his whole demeanor when Talking To The muslim He Even Said at one point "sorry To Interrupt but" we Thought the whole thing Was disgracefulyorkshire lasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07581602587314865399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-72552657550899116262013-06-16T19:45:05.720+01:002013-06-16T19:45:05.720+01:00Hope he doesn't mind, but I've lifted a co...Hope he doesn't mind, but I've lifted a comment here from David Preiser at 'Biased BBC' which strikes me as being very sensible:<br /><br />"Robinson was brought in so that he and the EDL could be discredited in front of a serious BBC audience once and for all. Neil was reading either Mehdi Hasan’s list of questions, or from the same source Hasan got them. The goal was character assassination, and it was nearly accomplished. If you can’t defeat the message, shoot the messenger. Robinson fell for none of it, but there’s too much easy evidence against him.<br /><br />No wonder the BBC keeps having Robinson on instead of, say, Douglas Murray, Rod Liddle, Andrew Gilligan, or Charles Moore, all of whom have espoused the same general views about the dangers of Islamist extremism in Britain.<br /><br />The BBC needs to stamp down the message, so allows the worst possible spokesman for it to get nearly all the attention. It’s an old game. Perhaps Liddle and Gilligan have been invited on but declined? I suspect they haven’t been asked, but it’s easy enough to find out.<br /><br />If the BBC had any real case to discredit the message other than shouting “racist” or, in Neil’s case, shouting “fascist thug”, they’d be talking to the credible pundits I’ve mentioned, or others without the baggage Robinson brings, and having adult conversations. But they don’t. And I don’t mean having them on panel shows every once in a while to debate other topics. I mean have them on in exactly the way Robinson is brought in, on the exact same kinds of shows, to discuss this topic specifically and no others."<br /><br />http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2013/06/15/we-refuse-even-to-face-it-let-alone-to-stop-it/#comment-286643Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.com