the Beeb in neutral
The BBC 'must become more impartial'. So say a couple of headlines from earlier in the week
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC 'must become more impartial'. "The BBC needs to take more care to ensure it is impartial, according to a report commissioned by the corporation." That report was echoed and amplified by pointed pieces in the [London] Times and Daily Mail as well
BBC report damns its 'culture of bias'-News-Politics-TimesOnline. The problem with the BBC, apparently, is that it demonstrates "innate liberal bias" this is a qoute from one Andrew Marr, the BBC's former political editor. In fact most of the quotes bandied about derive from two individuals Roger Mosley and Andrew Marr
BBC tackles allegations that it has 'an innate liberal bias'-Business-Industry Sectors-Media-TimesOnline. The report itself, a pdf which I downloaded and glanced at, is the sort of quiet desperate handwringing one expects from the English. Not everyone at the BBC, though, regards this report as confession even of the crime of holding opinions contrary to Rupert Murdoch's world view
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Does the BBC have a bias problem? What set them, the BBC's detractors, off? Well principly an episode of The Vicar of Dibley Dawn French's character urges her parishioners to support the Make Poverty History.org campaign and it seems the camera catches a glimpse of their web page over her shoulder. That episode was written by one of their people which apparently contravenes some editorial guidelines. Reading through the various articles on this I see Make Poverty History favors developing nation Debt relief. That's enough to send a cold cthlonic chill up the back of any Banker's Toad. And I suspect is the real sin here. And sin it is. It's all too much; having left the confines of decorum if not reason itself lurching over to the wild mad lands of the left, by coming out against poverty. What next taking a position on hunger or even the effrontery of declaring starvation "bad". Clearly this needs to be walked back to an sensible center right position. (or Right-of-Centre as Andrew Marr likes to put it - but possibly he's upset the BBC wouldn't fund his Oswald Mosley documentry). A spokesman is wanted to explain the societal need to have great thick belts of poverty in place always. I can see a potential shoot here for the evening news. A BBC announcer on remote location intoning in crisp RP: "Here are the dreadful poor. We could do something about this tragedy of the human condition - this squalor, But [fade-out and fade-in new location] surely we must also consider this." A man steps forward. "Well here you can see my swimming pool, which normally I keep full to the top with pound notes. It is at the moment only half full. If anyone were to dive in now from the high board they could certaintly hurt themselves. I lay this directly at the feet of the relentless charity campaigns that are destroying this nation. I hardly feel its worth entering bidding to buy football clubs anymore, behind Americans and Thai kings. Something must be done. The poor are selfish. They haven't the ability to understand that they and their marginal and unneccesary opinions simply need to remain on the outside. Where they belong. This just has to be accepted." BBC Announcer closing: "There you have it, clearly something must be done. I'm Craven Yawlp for the BBC". Another issue bundled with these BBC compaints which I saw in a different article said that an opening graphic the BBC uses, which shows a tilted map of England centered on London demonstates "insensitivity" to the Scots by depicting Scotland on the periphery. Insensitivity to Scots! When you start to worry about being insenstive to Scots it's over. Tell Nelson to haul down the jack and sail home. Fortunetly I can help them here with an improved and more accurate graphic of my own. Better then the version they use now (which I believe is centered over Tempo House.) The line is for visualization effects alone and is not intended as a depiction of Tony Blair's leash.
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