tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post4645609679986724915..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Agenda piled upon agendaCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-91055628736546806992018-03-24T14:07:05.396+00:002018-03-24T14:07:05.396+00:00I think the BBC have much more reason to be scared...I think the BBC have much more reason to be scared of the Corbynistas than the Conservatives. It doesn't take a leap of imagination to see a scenario where John McDonnell announces the iniquitous licence fee is going to be abolished and replaced by a disbursement of government revenues overseen by an "independent" panel of Corbynistas who will then monitor BBC output and internal practices. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-40873205098008937262018-03-23T23:54:57.307+00:002018-03-23T23:54:57.307+00:00The response amongst Corbynistas to even the milde...The response amongst Corbynistas to even the mildest of criticism is on a hair trigger. Are the BBC scared? It does look that way. Since the non event of the Corbyn hat “scandal” I realise that Communist Party parallels are now blasphemous, but there is something frighteningly Red Guard-like about this weird cult. I also believe that many of them, perhaps not at the senior level in news and current affairs, but at the intermediate level and certainly in other departments like comedy and drama are Corbynistas. <br /><br />The incredible cowardice shown by the BBC towards Labour Party anti-Semitism is fuelled by not merely a fear of Corbynistas, but by a fear of being seen to oppose anyone who they see as anti-Zionist. Anti-Semitism BBC style.<br />Terrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-29213555832727014842018-03-23T21:11:21.658+00:002018-03-23T21:11:21.658+00:00Yep, the BBC adopted a careful strategy with UKIP ...Yep, the BBC adopted a careful strategy with UKIP for several years: highlighting and exaggerating anything negative in social media posts or interviews by any of its members (not just officials) in, as you point out national news, otherwise not giving their policies any publicity and subjecting their senior leaders to aggressive interview techniques on the rare occasions they got before a BBC mike. <br /><br />The odd thing is that the policy was somewhat changed in 2017, at the very time when polls suggested UKIP were on the ropes. The reason? The BBC were concerned (rightly as it turned out) that the Tories would be picking up lost UKIP votes. The Conservatives got a 5% boost. <br /><br />To my mind, this proves that the BBC's approach to UK political parties is highly calibrated. In the 2017 campaign we also saw them being v. kind to the Lib Dems at the outset before they realised they were making no headway. <br /><br />The BBC's current approach to Corbyn is ambivalent I think. There is still the dream they have of getting Corbyn out of the way and electing a soggy-left globalist like Chukka who will then campaign strongly against Brexit. But on the other hand, they can see that is increasingly unlikely and so they protect Corbyn much more now from negative stories. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.com