[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