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BBC director admits BBC's "massive bias to the left".

(Obscure Monty Python Reference about IQ tests)

The penguins scored badly when compared with primitive human sub-groups like the bushmen of the Kalahari but better than BBC program planners...
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I wonder if we'll get other confessions from other networks, like an AA meeting:

-"My name is ABC and I'm a liberal."

-"Hi, ABC! I'm Newsweek. When I was a liberal, I came up with the brilliant idea of the case for killing granny cover. I also gave a zillion adulating cover to Obama (the link has only six...) while giving Palin a cover that calls her a "problem" that must be "solved". I also declared we are all socialists in America now.

My circulation tanked, and I was recently sold for a buck. Only then, when I hit bottom, did I realize I have a problem. Can you believe I didn't realize that people wouldn't think I'm the fountain of wisdom and truth, but just that I'm a printed version of some left-wing bloggers' rants, which they can get for free on the internet?

I see it better now. LA (Liberals Anonymous) helped me a lot."

Ah well, they say acknowledging the problem is the first step.
 
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Skeptic said:
BBC director admits BBC's "massive bias to the left".
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Yes, but if you'd read the rest of the article, you would have mentioned that he was talking about the past, not the present. Or did you see that and were being deliberately devious in your phrasing?

It's wonderful the BBC. It can be anything it's opponents want it to be. It was only last year it was accused as being 'in the pocket of the Israelis' by the anti-war lobby for refusing to broadcast a Palestinian appeal advert in the wake of the Israel's attack on Hamas.

In short, it's a tribute to its impartiality that every possible political wing pile into the BBC as being against them.
 
It's the same paper that Cicero likes to cite, right?

I think it says a lot more about their honesty that they can even analyze themselves like that than other news organizations (especially ones who run articles about 3 year old papers to discredit a group).

Oddly, the copyright blurb at the bottom says:
Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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Did they just steal that article?
 
"In the BBC I joined 30 years ago, there was, in much of current affairs, in terms of people's personal politics, which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the left," Thompson said.

"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," he added.
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The horror!

Also, why are you bashing a British news organization when you don't even know what liberal means :p ?
 
if the continued push for equality and freedom across the world means that the course of human events has a liberal agenda, than so be it.

ending slavery= liberal agenda.

the emancipation of the Jews= liberal agenda.

child labor laws= liberal agenda.

giving women the right to vote= liberal agenda.

abortion rights= liberal agenda.

ending segregation and Apartheid= liberal agenda.

protecting the environment and reducing pollution= liberal agenda.

fighting against ALL of these things? conservative agenda.

conservatives fight to "conserve" the status quo or even cause society to regress, liberals seek to end the status quo and progress.
 
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Do not put your own interpretation of a person's meaning into quote-boxes. You must make it very clear that this is your interpretation, not an actual quote.
 
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Skeptic said:
BBC director admits BBC's "massive bias to the left".
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"In the BBC I joined 30 years ago, there was, in much of current affairs, in terms of people's personal politics, which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the left," Thompson said.
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So, not only is the story talking about the situation 30 years ago, it's from a story published 2 years ago.

Now, what was your point about bias in reporting?
 
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Yes, but if you'd read the rest of the article, you would have mentioned that he was talking about the past, not the present. Or did you see that and were being deliberately devious in your phrasing?

It's wonderful the BBC. It can be anything it's opponents want it to be. It was only last year it was accused as being 'in the pocket of the Israelis' by the anti-war lobby for refusing to broadcast a Palestinian appeal advert in the wake of the Israel's attack on Hamas.

In short, it's a tribute to its impartiality that every possible political wing pile into the BBC as being against them.
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The BBC was shamefully abused by nu labour.
 
Yet another "skeptic" troll tread epic fails at the start line.

:)

priceless...
 
It's great when people post articles after reading only the sensationalist headline tacked on by idiots like Breitbart! :p Way to go, Skeptic, you've outdone yourself today!
 
Oh, gold, the headline actually reads: BBC had "massive bias to left:" director general. So he can't even use the excuse of just reading the headline, he was deliberately trying to misrepresent the article. I think that says a lot about a persons intellectual integrity, don't you?
 
Another epic fail. Suspect another thread the OP will never darken the door of again. Both sides trip over themselves to accuse the BBC of bias.
 
Actually, you can be biased in your selection of stories, and the importance you place on them, even if every last thing in them is factually true and accurate and complete.
 
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Actually, you can be biased in your selection of stories, and the importance you place on them, even if every last thing in them is factually true and accurate and complete.
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Yes, and your point being? When both sides are accusing the Beeb of bias it is generally a good indicator that they've got the balance right.
 
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So, not only is the story talking about the situation 30 years ago, it's from a story published 2 years ago.

Now, what was your point about bias in reporting?
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And you note that the quote states "30 years ago, ...snip... in terms of people's personal politics.." and that it "struggled" with the matter of bias. In other words even 30 years ago even the BBC staff whose personal politics were to the left (and we know it certainly was not all of them - especially in regards to the "big names" that faced the cameras) understood that they had to work to achieve impartiality.

I don't see anything wrong at all with people recognising they have a bias towards something but trying to ensure in their professional capacity that they do not allow that to influence their decisions.

What I find much more worrying is those that do not recognise that they have a bias.
 
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