tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post8910386908733505335..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: 'Panorama' and Jeremy CorbynCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-9527604356426007782015-09-10T16:14:33.431+01:002015-09-10T16:14:33.431+01:00Have you seen this? Be prepared to laugh out loud....Have you seen this? Be prepared to laugh out loud.<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/08/jeremy-corbyn-panorama-special-bbc-refuses-to-disclose-number-of-complaints_n_8103896.html?utm_hp_ref=labour-party<br /><br /><b>Jeremy Corbyn Panorama Special: BBC Refuses To Confirm Number Of Complaints Because Of 'Lobbying'</b><br /><br /><i>The BBC has refused to disclose the number of complaints it received from viewers following the Jeremy Corbyn Panorama special which aired on Monday evening.<br /><br />Hundreds of Corbyn's supporters took to social media to express their anger at the programme, which prompted comparisons with Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News and accusations of a "hatchet job".<br /><br />Ofcom says it received six complaints questioning the programme's 'due impartiality' but said this is an issue for the BBC and BBC Trust to adjudicate.<br /><br />However, because some of those expressing their anger did so while publicising the telephone number and postal address of the BBC's complaints department, the corporation has now refused to say exactly how many people have filed objections.</i><br /><br />Oh, dear, complaints from both sides, eh? Still, it's nice to see the other side having the complaints door slammed in their faces for a change.<br /><br />Curiously, Sarah Montague was very tough on Jon Cruddas this morning. She was constantly on the attack, even a bit strident at times, on his position that a Corbynite Labour would be a disaster. She wheeled out every possibly excuse for supporting Corbyn, and tried to tell Cruddas he might be the one on the wrong side. She was rather more challenging than I would have expected, really. I had her pegged as Establishment, as dopey and Progressive as her questioning can sometimes be. Although, she's certainly dim enough to be a fan of Corbyn's politics.David Preisernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-60188233000165013602015-09-09T09:30:37.802+01:002015-09-09T09:30:37.802+01:00Seems pretty much par the course. Corbyn as leader...Seems pretty much par the course. Corbyn as leader of Labour will not serve BBC interests as well as others.<br /><br />Ergo, the BBC now being an overt policy-shaping entity with billions to go shaping with...<br /><br />The best bit is, they can also claim it shows how balanced they are.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-26813300117697595982015-09-09T02:36:21.981+01:002015-09-09T02:36:21.981+01:00....except that twice, in 2010 and 2012, Panorama ...<i>....except that twice, in 2010 and 2012, Panorama doggedly went after a top Conservative donor, Lord Ashcroft.</i><br /><br />No, see, they're still Left-wing. This is the post-modern Establishment we're talking about, remember, not the Establishment of your youth. Ashcroft is an evil Thatcherite in their view, not Establishment Right like Cameron or Patten. Even I don't consider him that kind of Establishment soft Left-of-center Tory. Panorama is just more honest than Newsnight - and has a different remit, really - and not influenced by Left-wing titled editors, so they cast a wider net. They didn't do this to secretly help the Tories.<br /><br />You list their choices of leading Labour figures and elder 'big beasts'. Did Panorama give any serious time to a single person who actually would serve in a Corbyn Cabinet? (It is sooooo tempting to start both words with 'K'.) No Diane Abbott? None of the elite Leftoid celebutards who have been outspoken in their love for Corbyn? If that's not enough, I'd say the final proof of a deliberate anti-Corbyn agenda is the absence of Universal Owen.<br /><br />This seems to support my theory about what's going on internally at the BBC. I don't know this 'wronged' commenter enough to say, but it seemed a sober assessment and not a resident defender of the indefensible or troll, so the Panorama piece must have been pretty poor for it not to elicit a reaction like, "Thank God the BBC are finally getting it about what a @#$%^ commie 6#%^$ muzzie lovin' ^%&#$ Corbyn is, etc."<br /><br />The producers will definitely have had a meeting or three about how to approach this, and we know the ludicrous management structure means we can be sure somebody higher up had to approve it as well, i.e. Establishment BBC approved. And possibly put an order in for it.<br /><br />If "Red Andy" Marr's open fretting about how destructive a Corbyn leadership might be wasn't enough to convince you something is rotten in Salford, then this surely must be convincing. Oh, man, I hope there's an internal revolt about this. I will be checking that ex-BBC forum and Digital Spy.<br /><br />Exit question: Agreed about John Ware, largely learned from this blog. But who is the editor that lets him do it? I'd say that's at least as important.David Preisernoreply@blogger.com