[Liberty4eva]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

He owned that slimy BBC twit

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

He owned that slimy BBC twit

Yes Jon Sopel
a Utter Fool to give him back chat
like that - he will never
get any respect back , now.

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes Jon Sopel
a Utter Fool to give him back chat
like that - he will never
get any respect back , now.

Because the job of a political journalist is to earn the respect of the person they're interviewing? I don't think so

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Because the job of a political journalist is to earn the respect of the person they're interviewing? I don't think so

The clever ones let them think so to get the best stories, the vain ones like him just get nothing and end up as he will as royal correspondent

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

The clever ones let them think so to get the best stories, the vain ones like him just get nothing and end up as he will as royal correspondent

No sorry but this is ****ing absurd. The job of a political journalist is not to earn the respect of their interviewee, whether they're a local councillor or the POTUS. They are public servants and their job is to ensure they're accountable to the electorate. Did many complain about Paxman's interrogation of politicians on Newsnight? I don't think so, and rightly so too - if anything the respect was with him and not the other way around.

It is all well and good for people like you and I to have opinions on the quality of various media sources, in fact it should be encouraged - but the President of the United States cannot point blank refuse to talk to certain sections of the press because he doesn't like the fact they're critical of him, and subsequently label them 'fake news'. It is fascist through and through. Fox News slandered Obama for years, insinuating he was a Muslim and that he wasn't even born in the US - but I don't remember him refusing to take questions from them at press conferences or acting like a petulant child?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Because the job of a political journalist is to earn the respect of the person they're interviewing? I don't think so

Look This is Not Political President.
He won by helping the little guy

Infact Jack
because he is not part of that Washington DC
swamp, you must be nice to President Trump

That Acosta Reporter CNN HD
was lucky to get 20mins
with President Trump.

[Jack_]

Har har fascism is so funny LOLZ!

The BBC is fantastic btw

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Har har fascism is so funny LOLZ!

The BBC is fantastic btw

wait are you saying its not bias in the extreme?

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

wait are you saying its not bias in the extreme?

The BBC or Jon Sopel specifically?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Jack_

The BBC or Jon Sopel specifically?

Both

I worked for quite a few years for the BBC...

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Both

I worked for quite a few years for the BBC...

What always makes me laugh about the accusations of bias thrown at the BBC is that they're levelled from both those on the right and those on the left. Constantly. What does that actually tell you? That in actual fact they do a pretty good job of riding the middle.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Har har fascism is so funny LOLZ!

The BBC is fantastic btw

Yes Jack , it was
but the Evil UK BBC TAX
must go , now.

[jennyjuniper]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Har har fascism is so funny LOLZ!

The BBC is fantastic btw

It used to be, until a load of 'luvvies' took over.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Nick on LBC loved the clip and played it a few times this morning laughing like a drain

[Tregard]

Trump going after the BBC like that was absolutely moronic, much like mostly anything he does. That entire press conference was a baffling mess of half-truths and ego stroking, just insane.

[Crimson Dynamo]

“It’s a bit like walking into a Sunday meeting of the Flat Earth Society. As they discuss great issues of the day, they discuss them from the point of view that the earth is flat.

“If someone says, ‘No, no, no, the earth is round!’, they think this person is an extremist. That’s what it’s like for someone with my right-of-centre views working inside the BBC.”

– Jeff Randall, former BBC business editor

[Crimson Dynamo]

The BBC is “a publicly-funded urban organisation with an abnormally large proportion of younger people, of people in ethnic minorities and almost certainly of gay people, compared with the population at large”.

All this, he said, “creates an innate liberal bias inside the BBC”.

–Andrew Marr

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

The BBC is “a publicly-funded urban organisation with an abnormally large proportion of younger people, of people in ethnic minorities and almost certainly of gay people, compared with the population at large”.

All this, he said, “creates an innate liberal bias inside the BBC”.

–Andrew Marr

Why... why would that create a 'liberal bias' :/ are people in these categories identifiable in their political persuasion....how?

By the way he said this in 2006 when he was a shadow cabinet secretary, bleating that there were not enough conservatives at the BBC.... A lot has happened since then, he and Kuenssberg for one ...the balance if any was evident has now surely gone the other way in their political reportage?

'Former political editor Andrew Marr argued in 2006 that the liberal bias of the BBC is the product of the types of people the Corporation employs, and is thus cultural not political.[8] In 2011, Peter Oborne wrote in his Daily Telegraph blog, "Rather than representing the nation as a whole, it [the BBC] has become a vital resource – and sometimes attack weapon – for a narrow, arrogant Left-Liberal elite".[12]

Speaking to journalists at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in 2009, Jeremy Hunt, the Shadow Cabinet Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, claimed that BBC News needed more Conservatives: "I wish they would go and actively look for some Conservatives to be part of their news-gathering team, because they have acknowledged that one of their problems is that people who want to work at the Corporation tend to be from the centre-left. That's why they have this issue with what Andrew Marr called an innate liberal bias."[13]

Other commentators have taken the opposite view and criticised the BBC for being part of The Establishment. The commentator Mehdi Hasan in the New Statesman pointed out the right-wing backgrounds of many BBC presenters and journalists, querying why even many "liberals and leftists" accept the right's description of BBC bias.[14] Guardian columnist Owen Jones is also of the opinion that the BBC is biased towards the right owing to numerous key posts being filled by Conservatives.[15]'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Why... why would that create a 'liberal bias' :/ are people in these categories identifiable in their political persuasion....how?

Because right-wingers intensely dislike blacks, gays, and anyone under 35?

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Because right-wingers intensely dislike blacks, gays, and anyone under 35?

It kinda sounds like that doesn't it? I expanded that post btw

[Crimson Dynamo]

By far the most popular and widely read newspapers at the BBC are The Guardian and The Independent. *Producers refer to them routinely for the line to take on *running stories, and for inspiration on which items to cover. In the later stages of my career, I lost count of the number of times I asked a producer for a brief on a story, only to be handed a copy of The Guardian and told ‘it’s all in there’.

– Peter Sissons, Former BBC News and Current Affairs presenter

[Crimson Dynamo]

“In the BBC I joined 30 years ago [as a production trainee, in 1979], there was, in much of current affairs, in terms of people’s personal politics, which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the left. The organisation did struggle then with impartiality. And journalistically, staff were quite mystified by the early years of Thatcher.

“Now it is a completely different generation. There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC. It is like the New Statesman, which used to be various shades of soft and hard left and is now more technocratic. We’re like that, too.”

– Mark Thomspon, former BBC Director General

[Crimson Dynamo]

Roger Mosey, former head of BBC TV news, has published a book giving chapter and verse on the Corporation's liberal bias.

Mosey, who also used to edit Radio 4's Today programme, confirms that Auntie leans so far Leftwards that she frequently topples over into propaganda.

He's the first truly senior BBC executive to do so. As such, he is in a position to provide killer details.

We learn not just the extent of the BBC's liberal group-think, but also exactly how news stories are reshaped and 'sanitised' to fit the agenda of the only newspaper the Beeb's journalists read from cover to cover — the Guardian, it goes without saying.

'One night on the Ten O'Clock News we broadcast a package from a racially diverse part of Britain, where ethnic minorities had become a majority of the local population,' writes Mosey.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...-s-biased.html

[Northern Monkey]

"Impartial,Free and Fair"