Well, it’s back for a new season. Did you catch the unrelenting attacks on Sarah Palin? Not one person -in the audience or panel – would endorse her. Pathetic.
Anyone seen a Question Time application form? What questions do they ask? How does the BBC know whether you have filled it in honestly? Male/female and age, within reason, may be hard to lie about IF you are checked at the door but that is a bit late then if you have got your “pass”. Where are forthcoming dates published and how far ahead. Does the “venue” have a right to x many tickets to distribute how they like?
Also questions about politics: specific ones about Iraq, Europe and which party you vote for.
They claim that this enables them to put together a “balanced” audience, though obviously it also enables them, should they want to, which I suspect they do, to load it in favour of a certain point of view.
Then there’s the BBC’s idea of “balance”. According to current polls the Conservatives are twice as popular as Labour. Is this reflected in the make-up of the audience? Mmmm. You only had to watch last night’s show to answer that.
Also, any smart party activist would pose on the form as a member of the opposing party thus tilting the balance in their party’s favour on the night.
The BBC has sabotaged me. I’m not in the UK but I used to be able to access Question Time through the website. Now, with the new BBC IPlayer, I can’t, though apparently they are working on an international version.
So I can only access the occasional brief extract of QT on the site, therefore having less to bitch about re the BBC. This is unacceptable.
If I was Ian Hislop I wouldn’t allow myself to be plonked at the very end of the row of panellists. From that position viewers were frequently shown his three-quarter back view; a small figure with a round baldy head. In other words Tintin.
Although there was the standard applause for all lefty rhetoric, there were also definite outbreaks of clapping at some unlefty remarks. Criticism of Gordon for instance.
Just think. Last week I heard two uncritical items about Israel on R4/Today.
One was about an Israeli pianist/footballer/pianist-again – such good news, and the other was something to do with dogsh*t on the pavement. In a good way.
See, there are good Jews.
Vince Cable has attained cult status by avoiding the leadership curse in the Nick of time. Pun intended. (but not necessarily achieved) Now he seems to be everyone’s fave. That’s the way to do it.
Why I can’t I copy and paste swearing into haloscan. Is it cos i is (using a) mac? or is there some HTML code for letting bad words through?
Everybody else can do it. But not me. Sniff.
But some of the audience’s reactions do reflect public opinion, especially the anger at their hard earned money going into Corporate Welfare handouts for the banks.
I was in the QT audience one. It was in a very commuter belt town. There were only three people from a ethnic minority in the audience. All were chosen to contribute, as were all those who had pre submitted left sensitive questions. No nasty attacks were allowed on the Govt, nor were questions that queried the new orthodoxy.
what amazed me was the number of lefties there – they simply do not exist in my town. I did recognise quite a few teachers though.
The BBC’s own impartiality report mentions the practice of stacking the deck at QT:
“When the Question Time audience in the ultra-white city of Lincoln was leavened with black and Asian people bussed in from afar, was this a legitimate attempt to
skew the audience to fit national proportions • in which case what was the point of going to
Lincoln? Or was it an unacknowledged distortion of the true character of Lincoln? Are
such decisions made deliberately • or automatically, as part of the BBC’s own progressive
culture? “
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Anyone seen a Question Time application form? What questions do they ask? How does the BBC know whether you have filled it in honestly? Male/female and age, within reason, may be hard to lie about IF you are checked at the door but that is a bit late then if you have got your “pass”. Where are forthcoming dates published and how far ahead. Does the “venue” have a right to x many tickets to distribute how they like?
Gerald Brown
There’s an application form at the QT website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/1858613.stm
Quite detailed. Age/occupation/ethnic group etc.
Also questions about politics: specific ones about Iraq, Europe and which party you vote for.
They claim that this enables them to put together a “balanced” audience, though obviously it also enables them, should they want to, which I suspect they do, to load it in favour of a certain point of view.
Then there’s the BBC’s idea of “balance”. According to current polls the Conservatives are twice as popular as Labour. Is this reflected in the make-up of the audience? Mmmm. You only had to watch last night’s show to answer that.
Also, any smart party activist would pose on the form as a member of the opposing party thus tilting the balance in their party’s favour on the night.
The BBC has sabotaged me. I’m not in the UK but I used to be able to access Question Time through the website. Now, with the new BBC IPlayer, I can’t, though apparently they are working on an international version.
So I can only access the occasional brief extract of QT on the site, therefore having less to bitch about re the BBC. This is unacceptable.
But regardless of this just because someone wants to protect the unborn shouldn’t make them hate figures.
Martin | 19.09.08 – 1:27 pm
Well, exactly. The other day I heard pro-abortion people described as “progressive.”
What’s “progressive” about denying the unborn a chance at life?
If I was Ian Hislop I wouldn’t allow myself to be plonked at the very end of the row of panellists. From that position viewers were frequently shown his three-quarter back view; a small figure with a round baldy head. In other words Tintin.
Although there was the standard applause for all lefty rhetoric, there were also definite outbreaks of clapping at some unlefty remarks. Criticism of Gordon for instance.
Just think. Last week I heard two uncritical items about Israel on R4/Today.
One was about an Israeli pianist/footballer/pianist-again – such good news, and the other was something to do with dogsh*t on the pavement. In a good way.
See, there are good Jews.
Vince Cable has attained cult status by avoiding the leadership curse in the Nick of time. Pun intended. (but not necessarily achieved) Now he seems to be everyone’s fave. That’s the way to do it.
Why I can’t I copy and paste swearing into haloscan. Is it cos i is (using a) mac? or is there some HTML code for letting bad words through?
Everybody else can do it. But not me. Sniff.
Sue,
It has to be a mac issue?
I did enjoy this bit though!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/7625075.stm
ooh scandal.
short arse, bald, all round ugly Hislop dreams of Palin.
Halibet Harmsmen thinks sexism, then sulks.
scandal! QT exclusive
YAWN!!
But some of the audience’s reactions do reflect public opinion, especially the anger at their hard earned money going into Corporate Welfare handouts for the banks.
Ian Hislop really gave it to the looney lefties on Q.T. with both barrels . I bet he won’t be allowed back on for a while.
I was in the QT audience one. It was in a very commuter belt town. There were only three people from a ethnic minority in the audience. All were chosen to contribute, as were all those who had pre submitted left sensitive questions. No nasty attacks were allowed on the Govt, nor were questions that queried the new orthodoxy.
what amazed me was the number of lefties there – they simply do not exist in my town. I did recognise quite a few teachers though.
The BBC’s own impartiality report mentions the practice of stacking the deck at QT:
“When the Question Time audience in the ultra-white city of Lincoln was
leavened with black and Asian people bussed in from afar, was this a legitimate attempt to
skew the audience to fit national proportions • in which case what was the point of going to
Lincoln? Or was it an unacknowledged distortion of the true character of Lincoln? Are
such decisions made deliberately • or automatically, as part of the BBC’s own progressive
culture? “
Sue, just hyphenate them, thus:
Al Beeb is utter s-hit.