A few of the other blogs have also picked up on the Beeb’s treatment of Osborne:
Iain Dale points out that Osborne hasn’t actually broken any rules, and wonders why the BBC Business Editor is taking such an interest in what looks like a politics story.
Guido thinks he has the answer to that.
And Melanie Phillips at the Spectator really seems to have had enough.
Happy reading!
UPDATE: As a JBH in the comments points out, Stephen Glover also has a piece in the Mail today questioning the Beeb’s coverage, and The Sun also picks up on the complaints about bias.
Medialens’s heroes are: Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, Robert Fisk, George Monbiot and Seumas Milne. This is probably a list of my least favourite journalists and writers although I don’t mind Seumas Milne too much. From memory only Monbiot gets significant airtime on the BBC.
Medialens’s theory on media bias is much the same as ours, in that there is an inbuilt system that ensures that only the “correct” stories are run. From their point of view there aren’t enough stories about how corporations are ripping off or ignoring some victim group or the planet as a whole, from our point of view (not the royal we, I am sure there are a few of you who agree with me) there aren’t enough stories about how the government is ripping off or ignoring all of us.
“Does anyone ever complain that the BBC is biased against the left ? No ! QED.”
There’s plenty of criticism from the nutcase HARD left that the BBC is an instinctively right wing organisation controlled by the capitalist establishment to suppress the proletariat blah de blah blah…
I’ve not seen any criticism from the liberal centre left, whereas in addition to the nutcase hard right, perfectly rational centre rightists and indeed centrists have had enough of the Beeb’s bias.
is it possiable, that any person could claim, under the human rights act, that they are forced under the threat of imprisonment,to financialy support the bbc, even though they genuinely believe that the bbc are politicaly biased ?
Cockney 12:40
Well I guess looking at it from the George Galloway angle, the BBC is right-wing !
Stephen Glover on the BBC’s baised coverage of Osborne and Mandelson:
While the BBC’s knives are out for Osborne, Mandy is getting away with murder
The political editor Mawhinney has now come out to defend his reporters.
Trouble is, he gets the story wrong himself and makes a fresh accusation (of concealment) against Osborne all of his own…
http://cassiuswrites.blogspot.com/2008/10/bbc-editor-misses-point.html
cassius | Homepage | 23.10.08 – 3:33 pm
Trouble is, he gets the story wrong himself and makes a fresh accusation (of concealment) against Osborne all of his own…
So he does. Osborne is probably wise not to sue Nat Rothschild, but the BBC….? There’s a tempting target.