Say Hello, Wave Good Bias...

I'm not convinced that BBC Radio 4 journalist Michael Buchanan entirely buys the Daily Express's take on things here:

There's nothing a BBC reporter on Twitter likes more than mocking a right-wing tabloid, is there?

Work in Progress

Here's a comment that appeared a couple of days ago on the Biased BBC website, quoting a comment on Guido's Order Order site.:

..this from Guido comment

Hang The B**tards says:

November 25, 2012 at 1:53 pm

ANDREW MARR this morning on reviewing the papers said

“The foster couple in Rotherham had extreemist political views”

You may ask yourself WTF is this adulterous man talking about ?

Answer: He’s connected to the Common Purpose Gestaop so obviously springs to the defence of F***wit-Thacker !

(Did you like the way I oh-so-delicately mod*rated it?)

That's a serious charge about Andrew Marr, accusing him of abandoning BBC impartiality to accuse the shamefully ill-treated UKIP-supporting foster parents of holding extremist political views. 

Have a watch of the programme and you find that what Andrew Marr actually said was:

"Some things change, however. I mean, one of the other big stories, Sarah, has been the treatment of this UKIP-supporting family who were told they couldn't foster or adopt some children because of their extreme political views." 

...which to any reasonable-minded viewer quite obviously mean't:

"Some things change, however. I mean, one of the other big stories, Sarah, has been the treatment of this UKIP-supporting family who were told they couldn't foster or adopt some children because of their "extreme political views"." 

This is a typical example of the problem on many a comments field where people expound on the issue of BBC bias - people mishearing, misquoting and misunderstanding or, maybe even, deliberately trying to mislead others for malicious reasons.

Then, of course, comes the ad hom, the conspiracy theory and the breaking of Godwin's Law. Bingo.