Jul 21 2007
The BBC turns to tory bashing and ignores the scandal of the floods
A slice of life at the Today programme
This morning was a classic illustration of the bias of the BBC. During the last part of the programme we heard the following items in sequence:
- A review of the papers. This highlighted the bad floods, with no mention of the failure of the government to sort out heavy flooding on roads and railway lines despite early warnings. It then alleged the Conservative party post the by-election results was in a bad way, drawing on the Star and Daily Telegraph.
- A fawning interview with Lady Young, head of the Environment Agency. She was not asked why the Agency she presides over admitted last year many of its flood defences were in unsatisfactory or worse condition. She was not asked what her Agency was doing to try to maintain flood defences to a higher standard this year. She was allowed to praise the government for giving more money for better flood defences in 2010-11 why not now? Why should we believe promises of money for after the next General Election. She was not asked which schemes should be a priority to protect people next time. She was allowed to advertise the Agency’s website. Any serious reading of it reveals what a poor job the Agency has done.Why does it spend over
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
Next time you get in, abolish them via statutory instrument. Close ‘em on day one, send everyone (everyone) home on gardening leave, lock the buildings, put the place up for sale, lock, stock and barrel) Don’t let them organise resistance and propaganda to their own dismissal from state-pampered prigs.
ITV are required to be balanced on news bulletins, so it can easily work for a newly privatised BBC. And I am SO sick of paying for the hearty salaries of
Hello,
This has been going on a very long time especially on the Radio 4 Today programme.
I am basically apolitical since I dislike and distrust all 3 major parties and threw my TV out 4 years ago due to BBC bias and dumbing down.
The political person truly left out in the cold by them is Alec Salmond, who is treated as Winston Churchill was by the BBC prior to WW11. This shows the power Gordon Brown has over the BBC activists.
Now is the time to bash the BBC over its so obvious bias on all fronts and to try to achieve true balance and honesty. People need to complain heartily giving daily specific instances of bias and demanding individual answers, as the website allows for (at the moment anyway)- a daily dose of bias is so easy to achieve with the Today programme from all commentators, as well as with Jacky Hardgraves on World at One or at the later news slot.
The BBC will come back with parsimonious answer statements of investigation but no bias found, but if we insist on transparancy of complaints this will make them veeery veeery slowly change until we can weed out the worst and initiate a true culture change.
I would advise people to subscribe on Google send emails to them on “BBC bias”. They will get about 7 emails per day of which at least 50% give truly valid instances of BBC bias and lack of balance.
Forget the phone-in fiasco - this is used as a red herring to counter the bias / balance claims.
Regards, Colin.
I’m with Stuart on this.