Biased BBC?

princeofpounds

I have to say I never worried too much about the impartiality of the BBC until this campaign.


But I felt like there was more and more of it, and today I read this:


http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2015-32661502


Entitled "How David Cameron's Conservative's Won It", it appears to conclude the following major points:

For months the Conservatives, with the Tory press in lockstep, had been tearing at Ed Miliband's character.

But what does pay off is, to be blunt, scaring voters.

The "ransom argument" {NOTE - SNP power sharing}exploited a rising tide of English nationalism

In vain did Labour try and chip away at the fear-mongering.

It might have made for a thin, negative and corrosive campaign.

It's quite astonishing how skewed the interpretation is; yes, there has been hard politicking as part of the campaign, but claiming that it was the only secret to victory seems a stretch.


Did they never just think that perhaps, just perhaps, the idea that they also had policies a large part of the electorate agreed with might have something to do with it?

Fella

BBC are hugely biased.

Just look at their Economics editors. This is the main person reporting on economics on BBC TV. And for years it was Stephanie Flanders (yes she who had an affair with Ed Miliband). Then she was replaced for years by Robert Peston (yes the son of a Labour Peer).

But you don't even need to analyse it, just watch Newsnight.

Or don't even do that. Just reflect on the fact that the BBC is a mainstream broadcaster funded by a tax none of us have a choice in whether to pay, as opposed to being funded based on anything to do with merit.

RichardD1970

Fella wrote: »

BBC are hugely biased.

Just look at their Economics editors. This is the main person reporting on economics on BBC TV. And for years it was Stephanie Flanders (yes she who had an affair with Ed Miliband). Then she was replaced for years by Robert Peston (yes the son of a Labour Peer).

But you don't even need to analyse it, just watch Newsnight.

Or don't even do that. Just reflect on the fact that the BBC is a mainstream broadcaster funded by a tax none of us have a choice in whether to pay, as opposed to being funded based on anything to do with merit.

Everyone has the choice to pay or not and there are thousands of people who legitimately don't.

michaels

I suspect there is going to be a reckoning.

Problem is they don't even realise they re biased as it is a group think thing, they all are liberal media types with few mathematical or scientific skills with the same backgrounds so they are not biased, 'everyone they know' looks at things the same way.

stator

What I found disturbing is when the BBC were mocking the Lib Dems with their "House of Cards" CGI nonsense. I could see no illustrative value to the feature whatsoever, just a vein attempt to revel in their downfall

Nasqueron

Telegraph may be Tory but the Sun and Times are under Murdoch's whim - Labour threatened to make him sell off some of the media group so he went all out anti-Labour - pro-Tory in England and pro-SNP in Scotland.

BBC are traditionally left of centre but go overboard to be seen as balanced especially near elections

markharding557

The BBC question time programme was definitely not favourable to Ed Milliband so I don't think this bias thing has any basis.

The problem some people have is that the unbiased BBC doesn't resemble the sun or the daily mail.

princeofpounds

I don't think anybody was questioning question time. I am aware that bashing it is a bit of a hobby amongst those who dislike the BBC's editorial line. But personally I felt it was generally a bit overblown. This article I link to, however, is clearly unacceptable.

Fella

RichardD1970 wrote: »

Everyone has the choice to pay or not and there are thousands of people who legitimately don't.

Wow thousands. Out of 64 million?

Everyone under 75 who owns the piece of electronics called a television has to pay a substantial tax to fund broadcaster. Ridiculous and outdated.

And it goes without saying that since their entire funding mechanism is predicated on something so left-wing, the BBC is systemically biased.

If they were left to survive on their merits there would be a lot of dreadful presenters & especially producers looking for a new job the next day.

chewmylegoff

princeofpounds wrote: »

I don't think anybody was questioning question time. I am aware that bashing it is a bit of a hobby amongst those who dislike the BBC's editorial line. But personally I felt it was generally a bit overblown. This article I link to, however, is clearly unacceptable.

It appears pretty biased to me as well. Left wingers often seem to only accept democracy when they win. When they lose it's because they other side cheated or because the system is unfair. When the wrong side wins it is called a sad day for democracy or worrying for the future of our country - perhaps they should step back and think about the fact that the electorate didn't want their message or their politics.

buglawton

Dead Ringers yesterday and now on iPlayer radio had a go at everyone in equal measure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05sycdj