In Michael Gove, the BBC have a new hate figure to fixate upon. I notice the BBC “comedians” now have a go at him but that was as nothing compared to the not so fragrant Sarah Montague at 8.10am this morning on Today. (No link up yet). She was bristling with hostility towards “Mr Gove” and I thought he did rather well even though she continually cut across him and refused to debate his points. I was pleased that Gove actually fought back, criticising the BBC for how it is portraying the entire Academies Bill issue. But in this interview, Sarah was essentially acting as a cipher for Ed Balls. BBC = the voice of the Labour Party/
MICHAEL GOVE – PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE
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Yes I caught this too and was very impressed with the way Michael handled it.
It was great the way he challenged her ‘mindset’ which clearly touched a raw nerve on her part. It was also great the way he managed to end the discussion by saying something like he believes in value for money which is perhaps not something the BBC believes in.
The BBC is shamelessly socialist and hates the idea of individual responsibility and freedom so Gove is, as you say, Public Enemy No. 1. But he kept jibeing away at the BBC itself and I get the imprression that people like Gove have had enough of the lefty bias of the beeb and is taking the fight to them. May it continue and grow!
I hope Cameron is taking heed. Gove should not be left isolated in tackling BBC bias. One man can only do so much for so long. Gove stands to do a lot of good if he gets the support he needs and deserves.
Montague denied that her advocacy was reflective of her opinions. All credit to Gove for attacking the BBC mind-set. However, he calmed Montague to some extent by stating that under no circumstances would the schools, purportedly set free from state control, would be selective. Interestingly – and this would have proved Montague’s point about her personal opinions – she didn’t challenge him to justify that little piece of socialist dogma.
Balls was on BBC Breakfast again as well. Seems to me that the BBC are creating these attacks to simply give Liebour leadership scum airtime.
I didn’t hear the interview but Michael Gove has history for being one of the few to Tories to tackle the BBC on its bias. I well remember him on Newsnight accusing Kirsty Wark of bias over Lord Ashcroft.
You can be sure this has been noted and that the BBC is out to get him.
Yes, he is sharp, quick and nimble. They don’t like it!
In reality, it doesn’t take much for the BBC edifice of bias to come tumbling down. All it needs is one man of courage to make a stand. The BBC must be quaking that Gove might be that man, however much they know that Cameron isn’t.
Having been in the same position as Michael anytime I have been interviewed by the BBC I can assure you that attacking them is best.
S’right. I heard your interview at election time with your fellow Ulsterman Nolan. You were very deft in the way you tackled his bias.
One of the purposes of BBC bias is to demean its victims for being to afraid to spell it out the bias they’re facing. If a politician is not willing to slap down over-grown spoilt brats in the media, how can the public have confidence in them to govern the nation?
Great stuff – Gove tore a chunk out of Sarah as well as the anti-B BC! What with him and Jeremy Hunt talking about reducing the TV license fee, I’m beginning to think that some of the Cons may even be on the ‘people’s’ side!
Ian E I’m also pleasantly surprised by some of the Cons as I wasn’t expecting much of them. I do wonder if some of the new Ministers Gove , Pickles , Hunt etc being ideological Tories have decided to go out on their own and actually do something knowing that Cameron is politically weak and unpopular in his party so can’t stop them.
A good tactic for the Tories would be act simultaneously ramming through Gove school ideas , Pickles ban on on job adverts in the Guardian and cutting the licence fee at the some time. The Beeb will then concentrate on saving itself and ignore the other victims.
Some may be on the side of the “people” but don’t count on it. Cameron has said openly how much he likes the BBC as indeed has Hunt, so I think anything said about holding them to account is b/s. Never believe a word coming from the con/clegg scam.
I think you’re referring to their purported views before the election, when for obvious reasons, they wanted to neutralise the BBC’s obvious opposition to the Tory cause.
Last week, Hunt went on record (interview with the daily telegraph, published 17 July) to say
“The television licence fee could be cut under the government’s public spending austerity drive, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
Mr Hunt attacked the BBC’s “extraordinary and outrageous” waste.
He said he could “absolutely” see viewers paying less than the current £145.50 after next year’s negotiations between the BBC and the government.
Why do they have “negotiations” over the license fee? Tell the BBC you will get half what your getting now and if you cause trouble as you did over the Six Music channel then we will halve it again.
Six music channel only costs 9 million a year to run – how much does it cost to spin a few CDs ?
Radio 5 are piling in on Gove today as well, the vile Vicki Pollard is doing her bit.
Apparently according to one caller just because some money ‘might’ have been wasted (actually I think billions have been wasted) Gove is attacking the kids.
What a lot of plop, for example the idea of standardising school design seems to make sense to me, why do schools need to look like Sheep afterbirth is beyond me.
One woman thought it was terrible that their school was old fashioned, you know rows of desks and a blackboard. Hmm, sounds like the sort of place kids used to get a decent education in, but no more.
I too heard Gove speaking up for himself and it did my heart good. Who knows perhaps we might, just might, get represented by our leaders rather than dictated to by the bbc.
Attack is definitely the best form of defence when dealing with the stinking hypocrites of the BBC.
Anyone remember Anne Coulter demolishing the egomaniac Paxman? That is the only way of dealing with bullies.
Agreed DV is correct, Tory politicians need to go on the BBC and simply attack them over bias. Tory HQ should keep a dossier of leftie bias from the BBC inparticular the person they know will be interviewing them.
Boris Johnson has demolished jug ears and Paxman beofre by knowing their backgrounds, Kirty Wark is another who has strong links ot the Liebour party.
If you attack them on bias, they have to defend themselves and that makes then uneasy. That said, it’s tough when you are on their territory and you feel the bias coming your way.
gove is great. i always enjoy hearing him not give an inch to the bbc and point out their biased views. but i fear for him as they will go for him and he needs support. i dont know much about academies and instinctively dont support them . why are they going on and on about money not available to refurbish each school which labour had promised. all these things take attention away from the general ineptitude of the school system. they just tick a box saying that school refurbished into modern dull glass and metal box. they should take away most of hte IT equipment and these stupid whilte boards from schools. tell the students that the focus is on learning and not making it enjoyable for them. school is working and they should learn a work ethic by actually working hard in school and learning the basics and learn to read and write properly.
When they learn something thay actually feel a satisfaction that they enjoy. I used to learn because I was scared of getting hit if I didn’t pay attention. When I went on to secondary school I didn’t have that fear and didn’t learn anything!
Just before I heard this, I was watching the News Channel and saw some talking head complaining about the Government “rushing through” this education scheme, and how awful it was that nobody was getting a chance to look at it. So that was fresh in my mind when Montague’s first line of attack was exactly that the Government was rushing this through too fast without letting people scrutinize it properly first. So the BBC agenda was clear from the start.
Obviously this made me even more amazed at Gove’s brilliant tactic of pointing out that he’s been on the BBC time and time again recently being forced to correct the same BBC errors about his policies. There can be no question of a BBC agenda, or at the very least a real Groupthink in evidence. Gove made it very clear that he’s witnessed different Beeboids on different shows asking the same questions and making the same false charges over and over again, as if none of them had ever done their homework or even noticed what their colleagues had done. It doesn’t get any more obvious than this.
The same line of attack on certain issues appears on many different programmes, radio and television, across the spectrum of BBC broadcasting. That’s no accident. I’m not saying there’s necessarily a memo handed down from on high about how to approach certain issues, but there are clearly conversations in the hallways about these things, and a clear political viewpoint dominating the BBC.
I’ve just added my bit on the open thread about this but I felt pretty sure that Gove’s mike was turned down while montague’s was made louder.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6153363/gove-kills-two-birds-with-one-stone.thtml
Good for Gove !
He is a big problem for the BBC. The more they interview him, the more he exposes the bias. Will they start ignoring him or carry on ?