Going back a couple of weeks, on the day of the BBC’s Annual General Meeting, Michael Grade, Chairman of the BBC’s governors, was interviewed on the Today programme. I believe he was interviewed once, however, looking at the reports of his words on BBC News Online and in the Daily Telegraph, one has to wonder if the Beeboids at News Online were wearing their rose-tinted ear-muffs that day (as usual). Using your skill, judgment and experience of BBC bias, see if you can figure out which of these two introductory excerpts is the BBC version and which is the Daily Telegraph version:
‘Repeat-free zones’ aim for BBC
Prime time viewing hours on BBC One and BBC Two could be “repeat-free zones” within 10 years, the broadcaster’s chairman Michael Grade has said.
It is “not good enough” that one in 10 programmes currently shown at peak times is a re-run, Mr Grade said.
Answering licence fee payers’ questions at its annual general meeting, director general Mark Thompson said plans for 15% spending cuts would improve value.
and:
Licence payers neglected for years, says Grade
Television licence-payers have been “neglected” for years by the BBC’s governors, chairman Michael Grade has said.
Mr Grade said the governors had followed their own opinions and tastes and had failed to ensure the BBC responded to the requirements of viewers.
He also set out an ambition to make BBC1 and BBC2 “repeat-free zones” within the next few years, while attacking “inefficiency” within the corporation
The corporation plans to cut staff by 15 per cent and Mr Grade backed this by saying that over-complex internal management and contract structures needed to be simplified.
Note particularly the contrast in the reporting of the BBC’s restructuring plans – one report describes “15% spending cuts”, whereas the other reports “plans to cut staff by 15 per cent”. Unless the BBC is planning to cut the licence fee (as if!), that ought to nail any lingering doubts for you!
The real scandal is this: the BBC has never repeated The Goodies.
Television licence-payers have been “neglected” for years by the BBC’s governors, chairman Michael Grade has said.
That rules me out then.
Maybe TV-License Payers should be able to elect the BBC board?
BBC once admired for its balanced and factual reporting has been hijacked by leftists.Its blatantly pro muslim and no longer objective in reporting to evoke the trust it once used to as in say WWII.The psuedo intellectual Gaurdian news paper is so intollerable I wonder if it is the twin brother of BBC. Together they are contributing to the destroying of respect for the great western civilisation in the name of freedom of speech.