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The left-wing BBC exposed again

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Reply 1

Psyk

The BBC is supposed to be all inclusive of all people and all walks of life in the UK. That means being liberal.

Niiicccceeee

I remember I once PM'd you asking what's wrong with being left wing. You didn't reply. Care to answer my question now?

Reply 4

tripleeagle

Original post by davidmarsh01

I remember I once PM'd you asking what's wrong with being left wing. You didn't reply. Care to answer my question now?

I reckon his problem is that the BBC is not meant to be left-wing. It's meant to be "unbiased" or "neutral"...

Reply 5

Jono404

I'd say the Guardian is much closer to central than the Mail or Express though

Reply 6

Student2806

It's still an improvement on Sky.

Reply 7

tripleeagle

Original post by davidmarsh01

Well if you look at his sig he seems to have a problem with left wingedness :s-smilie:

He doesn't give a reason why, so I asked him for one and he didn't answer.

Oh right I thought you were talking about this thread in particular :smile:

Reply 8

A Cat

sorry, but why would an organisation spend its recruitment budget on advertisements in the DM? Everyone knows that the people who read it are quite dull.

Reply 9

im so academic

Original post by Psyk

The BBC is supposed to be all inclusive of all people and all walks of life in the UK. That means being liberal.

Liberal does not mean it is the best.

Reply 10

JW92

"We need to foster peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking."

Pulling at straws here. Unless you've misunderstood the term, you must know that left-of-centre thinking has absolutely nothing to do with politics.

I would agree that the BBC has a bias towards being socially liberal and inclusive. So it should do. People of all different colours, creed and backgrounds pay for a licence fee, not just conservative white straight middle-class men.

Reply 11

jonnyboy1993

Liberalism is not the same as being left-wing (such as communism or socialism). Liberalism is about equality and equal rights, something the BBC is supposed to be about; treating everyone equally with no bias. You still get liberals who believe in capitalism, liberalism is not solely a left wing belief.

Also you cite the use of the Independent and the Guardian. These papers are as unbiased with regards to political allegiance as you are likely to find. The Telegraph and the Times are clearly right-of-centre and go against the unbiased principle of the BBC.

EDIT: Neg rep for making a valid point, only on TSR...

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Reply 12

U.S Lecce

The daily mail strikes again!

What will they print next?........ Whatever the **** they want it seems!

Reply 13

lukas1051

You expect me to read a Daily Mail article about biased news? Oh the irony...

Just because the people who work at the BBC may lean more to the left, it does not mean the BBC itself is biased - an individual can think however they like as long as it doesn't show up in the news reports, tv shows etc.

Personally I think the BBC does a great job of remaining neutral, far more so than ITV and Sky do. It's very liberal, but unless you're an idiot you would know that liberal is not the same as left-wing. Besides, The Daily Mail are always going to claim the BBC is unbiased because they hate the BBC, doesn't mean it's true.

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Reply 14

callum9999

The reason they advertise most in the Guardian is because it has a proper media jobs section. I wouldn't be surprised if "right-wing" news organisations advertised in there as well. It's nothing to do with the paper being biased - it's simply where the prospective workers look.

I rarely read newspapers, but the Guardian and Independent always seem the least biased to me - so I don't see it as a huge issue. It's practically impossible for a news organisation to be completely unbiased, and even if they are pretty close to being unbiased, you still get the people with right-leaning views moaning about how it's too left-wing, and the people with left-leaning views moaning it's too right wing.

I don't have a source but I seem to remember on several issues, groups from the right and left come out with reports on the same BBC coverage, one saying it's biased one way and the other saying the opposite. Sounds neutral enough to me!

Reply 15

cognito_08

Original post by lukas1051

You expect me to read a Daily Mail article about biased news? Oh the irony...

This.

Reply 16

LethalBizzle

Two things:

1. Leftist people are more likely to want to work there as it is a publicly funded institution, unavoidable. If it was rightist it wouldn't want itself to exist.

2. Liberal does not mean left.

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Reply 17

garethDT

The BBC is a joke, always has been. I don't know why people take it so seriously. Under the broadcasting act, the government can take control of the BBC whenever they see fit, so effectively the BBC has to relay the government agenda or they get taken over. And people call it free media?

Reply 18

Aj12

Original post by davidmarsh01

I remember I once PM'd you asking what's wrong with being left wing. You didn't reply. Care to answer my question now?

When it comes to a body like the BBC it is wrong. It is meant to be as neutral as possible

Reply 19

SteveScott

>whats wrong with being left wing
Given that this is a public organisation, supposedly politically neutral, everything is wrong with being left wing in this context.