The BBC’s very own Mark Easton has made the big time, his habit of trashing anything Tory whilst putting up a stiff defence of anything Labour has been noticed by the MSM….
Labour’s latest star performer
The Labour Party is a bit short of top-rank performers to wheel on to the Today programme, so it must be relieved to have found someone expert at skewering Coalition policies. Last week, in a three-way conversation with Tory housing minister Grant Shapps and John Humphrys, the new star poured scorn on government plans to build affordable housing. He was also withering about the Conservatives’ failure to implement the Dilnot proposals for adult social care. Plus, his blog highlights European criticism of British cuts. I’d suggest that Ed Miliband gives him a job, but I suspect Mark Easton is perfectly happy in his post as home affairs editor of the BBC.
When one stops to contemplate the smug, middle class drivel that spews forth from Humphry and the rest of the overpaid cronies on the Today program you quickly realise how bloated, complacent and arrogant the BBC has become – WITH OUR MONEY! I am always shocked, on the way to work every morning, by the level of blatant bias and narcissism of Today’s presenters; the hosts incessantly interject guests by answering their own questions (Evan Davis has a particular talent for this) and constantly heckle through attempting to put words in the mouths of the interviewees (unless they are Left-wing of course).
The BBC represent London; they don’t represent any other part of Britain. The metro-trendy liberal mindset that pervades the self-opinionated BBC workforce (exemplified by the likes of Evan Davis, Paul Mason and Justin Webb and so on) explains why the BBC constantly get it so badly wrong on anything that is removed from the London political and cultural bubble.
I pray for the day when all coerced subsidy is relieved from under this liberal parasitical behemoth; then we’ll see a marked change of tone from Davis and Humphrys et al I can assure you.
Fair points all, however..
‘the BBC constantly get it so badly wrong on anything that is removed from the London political and cultural bubble.’
…not too sure, on an objective basis, they get much right from within it, either.
That’s true!
Maybe just the Islington bubble
The BBC does NOT represent London. Have you ever been to London or met a Londoner?
The BBC represents only weirdo, lefty, PC, communist Greenies.
The best way to put a stop to leftys is stop their supply of free money licence fee, taxes etc. Most of them have never done a real days work in their life.
Readers might be interested in a section from the Robin Page column in the Daily Telegraph. Robin was of course dropped by the BBC from various countryside programmes including One Man & His Dog when he was arrested for asking for the same rights as a one legged black lesbian!
It sums up wonderfully the ‘official’ policy for anyone whose right o free speech is not in accord with the Politibururo or the BBC and NUJ.
‘’And then there was my first meeting, where the myth of Britain being the home of democracy and free speech was spectacularly demonstrated. The “monitoring officer” – no, this is not Eastern Europe or 1984, it is 21st-century Britain – had informed my “independent” friend Deb Roberts that she could not speak during a debate on “travellers” because she was “biased”. In fact I have heard her on “travellers” – she is one of the few people to speak openly, honestly and knowledgeably, rather than reciting politically correct and meaningless cliché-ridden mantras.
This is what the monitoring officer has to say about bias: “Bias has been defined as an attitude of mind which prevents the decision-maker from making an objective determination of the issues that he has to resolve.”
What you need to be aware of is that there is no need for proof of actual or potential bias to show “procedural impropriety” – an appearance of bias is sufficient. The legal test for bias is “whether a fair-minded and informed observer, having considered the facts, would conclude there was a real possibility of bias”.
Therefore politically correct waffle is unbiased and allowable, but a politically incorrect viewpoint based on conviction and conscience becomes “biased” and is banned. In 21st-century Britain, astonishingly, that passes as “free speech”.
Sums up the BBC policy on free speech rather well.
‘Sums up the BBC policy on free speech rather well.’
Indeed. It does seem rather ‘unique’ in scope.
Is there a link to that quote?
Wimbledon starts tomorrow. Three years ago, the start of Wimbledon inspired Mark Easton to blog about The English Lawn. Here’s couple of snippets noted by Biased BBC, with comments by DB.
With US First Lady Michelle Obama ploughing the White House lawn to plant organic vegetables, with climate change making lawn maintenance more problematic in Britain, with the fashion for the natural and with a global economic downturn, it may be that what was once a status-symbol is now a little bit naff.
Gratuitous mention of the Obamas check. Climate change reference check. Bit of leftie ideology check. And all in the space of two sentences about English lawns. Good going, Mark. Of course, to be a perfect encapsulation of BBC journalism you needed a couple more items:
The pampered lawn looks increasingly like an unsustainable relic from an era of excess, a throwback to the dark days of George W. Bush, and as out of place in the landscape as a partition barrier in Israel.
There – a BBC full house.
Just to be clear, the second part of that shouldn’t really be italicised. It is part of DB’s comment rather than something Easton wrote.
Whilst on the subject of the English Lawn, he did well not to start shouting that much hackneyed lunatic-left phrase; “PROPERTY IS THEFT” (apart from Mummy and Daddy’s Surrey mansion and their holiday cottage in Cornwall)
You missed – ‘The type of lawns that the besieged Palestinians in Gaza can only dream of as their gardens are under perpetual attack from the Israeli armed forces who regularly destroy lawns claiming that they are used to hide those brave freedom fighters who fight against Zionist tyranny.’
Mark Easton’s reporting during the last general election was a disgrace. Craig did an excellent forensic analysis of Easton’s behaviour during the live debates between the main parties’ Home Affairs spokesman.
Chris Grayling (Tory) was repeatedly harangued and interrupted by Easton in a most aggressive manner – from memory about 20 times during the debate.
The Labour candidate (Jacqui Smith?) Was given a free ride. Interrupted about two or three times.
As people say above here-there is no point expecting the BBCs current affairs monkeys to be other than lefty liberal metrosexual muppets with bias darned thought their sock puppet selves.
Maybe if we create a League table of them, marking them for flounce, feigned outrage, hypocrisy and ignorance on a weighted “basket of bias” index we`ll be OK.
Because Peston did a good show (albeit flawed) on the EU…and Peter Day did similar on the Eurocrisis…what say we give these two an Index of 100….reckon Webb will be the worst…so smarmy and ignorant…oh heck I forgot Bacon…exponential/log graph paper at the ready?