tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post927805305435149685..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Abhorrent!!!Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-12837651204953636232015-09-06T00:25:14.764+01:002015-09-06T00:25:14.764+01:00Outrageous bias. About the worst I've seen sin...Outrageous bias. About the worst I've seen since Evan Davis' absurd "Paddington Bear" interview. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-55691281813925271142015-09-05T17:59:57.338+01:002015-09-05T17:59:57.338+01:00Placing the focus on the human traffickers is a ve...Placing the focus on the human traffickers is a very smart move. Carswell's argument gets a little muddled beyond that, but at least he's figured out a useful approach. Although, even trying to guess numbers is foolish. It would be better to say that if they allowed only real, serious asylum-seekers, the numbers wouldn't be all that great, and nobody would mind. Instead, he gave McCoy a huge opening for his "You don't care" attack.<br /><br /><i>"Where's the humanity?"</i><br /><br />Narrative? What Narrative? They must notice how often they use that word. Media professionals must notice how they all sound like parrots. It's going to lose its currency if they keep it up. But they don't care, because, as Mark Easton has explained, influencing public opinion is their job.<br /><br />"My problem is..."<br /><br />Clear advocacy of a position. It's one thing to express sympathy for dead children - a bias charge would be dismissed out of hand on that one - but it's quite another to advocate for certain policies and explicitly against something his guest is saying.David Preisernoreply@blogger.com