[Jack_]

Rather than having a leftwing bias, research actually suggests the BBC's output is biased towards establishment and rightwing sources. A study by Cardiff University academics found that while there is always a bias towards political incumbents, the ratio in favour of Conservative politicians appearing on BBC news is far greater than it was in favour of Labour figures when Gordon Brown was prime minister. Business representatives appear much more than they do on commercial news, and appear 19 times more frequently than trade union voices on the BBC Six O'Clock News.

[Jack_]

The BBC broke accuracy and impartiality rules in a News at Six report about Jeremy Corbyn's view on shoot-to-kill, the BBC's governing body has said.

...

The BBC Trust said the BBC "was wrong in this case to present an answer Mr Corbyn had given to a question about 'shoot to kill' as though it were his answer to a question he had not in fact been asked".

[Jack_]

The former chair of the BBC Trust has accused the broadcaster’s journalists of “quite extraordinary attacks” on Jeremy Corbyn, and questioned whether BBC bosses had abandoned impartiality in their coverage of the Labour leader.

In comments that appear to reinforce recent criticisms of the BBC from supporters of Mr Corbyn, Sir Michael Lyons said he could “understand why people are worried” about impartiality at the public broadcaster.

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Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme he said: “I don’t think I’m alone in feeling that the BBC has sought to hedge its bets of late. There have been some quite extraordinary attacks on the elected leader of the Labour Party. I mean quite extraordinary. I can understand why people are worried about whether some of the most senior editorial voices at the BBC have lost their impartiality in this.”

"All I’m voicing is the anxieties that have been expressed publicly by others,” he added.

[Jack_]

The media coverage of Jeremy Corbyn has been characterised by a “marked and persistent imbalance” in favour of sources critical to him, a report has claimed.

On TV news, which is bound by strict impartiality rules, double the airtime was given to sources critical of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn than to those supportive of him, the report found.

[Toy Soldier]

Anyone who doesn't know how pro-Tory the BBC were back when the ConDem coalition got into power has a very, very short memory.

[Jack_]

I can play this game too LT it's funny that all of your quotes are handpicked straight from a blog about liberal bias at the BBC

Give it up and accept you're wrong. Criticism exists on both sides, both sides have a point and thus they cancel each other out - in actuality they do a pretty good job of remaining balanced.

[thesheriff443]

Lt has been crying wolf for a lot time, he's reduced to making outrageous comments to gain attention.
I like lt but the real member is far more interesting than the person he portrays.

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Lt has been crying wolf for a lot time, he's reduced to making outrageous comments to gain attention.
I like lt but the real member is far more interesting than the person he portrays.

Expose ha!

[Rob!]

It's worth pointing out I think the difference between ITV News's covering of Trump and the BBC. ITV couldn't make their reporting more negative but from everything I've seen, the BBC has remained fairly impartial. Trump's a diverse figure, and that's putting it politely. He literally cannot expect any other treatment from the media. The press conference yesterday was unedited and live. I watched the whole thing and I can honestly say that the persona the media outlets have been portraying of him are one hundred percent accurate.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Lt has been crying wolf for a lot time, he's reduced to making outrageous comments to gain attention.
I like lt but the real member is far more interesting than the person he portrays.

all are quotes from people working at the BBC, if you have quotes fro people working and running the BBC that claim right wing bias post them

attacking a member personally is against forum rules and can lead to a ban

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Jack_

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.

lol theyre lefting loony liberals who are also in the pocket of the monarchy who own the land

[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

[Toy Soldier]

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?

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by the truth

lol theyre lefting loony liberals who are also in the pocket of the monarchy who own the land

That DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE truth, there's nothing LESS "lefty liberal" than the bloody Monarchy . BNP members exclusively masturbate to sepia photographs of Liz. STATISTICAL FACT.

[Toy Soldier]

Also... I'd just add... I actually despise the BBC. LT paradox incoming.

[DrunkerThanMoses]

Well played mr trump. Rip into the media in hope they forget your dealings with Russia. His impeachment can't come sooner

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by DrunkerThanMoses

Well played mr trump. Rip into the media in hope they forget your dealings with Russia. His impeachment can't come sooner

what trump dealings with Russia?

[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

[Kizzy]

Is the romance dead?...

But Mr Smith, who joined the Fox News Channel at its inception in 1996, said the American people deserved to know the truth about any “improper communications with Russian officials.”

He said: "Your opposition was hacked and the Russians were responsible for it and your people were on the phone with Russia on the same day it was happening and we're fools for asking the questions?"

Remember trump... you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7585041.html

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by the truth

lol theyre lefting loony liberals who are also in the pocket of the monarchy who own the land

Ignoring the evidence and only looking at and believing the accusations levelled from your side doesn't make you right I'm afraid. Those on the left who criticise the BBC for leaning to the right are wrong, and those on the right who criticise the BBC for leaning to the left are wrong. And both are right too. Confusing, eh!

And that's a futile point since the entirety of the UK media worship the ground the royal family walk upon. And no other channel sucks the proverbial dick of the monarchy more than ****ing ITV. You have to be kidding me.

[Tregard]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

what trump dealings with Russia?

The ones that prompted the FBI investigation, as well as examination of Russia's influence by both House and Senate, with committees containing both democrats and republicans.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Tregard

The ones that prompted the FBI investigation, as well as examination of Russia's influence by both House and Senate, with committees containing both democrats and republicans.

standard stuff with nothing of any interest found

[Niamh.]

Just watched it, was expecting a bit more than him interrupting and insulting him before he even asked a question tbh

[Kizzy]

Apparently the whole press conference was a disaster with the outburst from him and the drubbing by fox, he's losing even his biggest supporters now over his Russian dalliances.

[MB.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

standard stuff