Comic Relief came early to R4 this week with the release of a Monty Pythonesque sketch in the form of an interview by Evan Davis with Danny Alexander.
Alexander provided the straightman to Evan’s very own comedy double act….What was the ‘gag’? Evan interviewing Evan…Alexander didn’t have to say much just providing a sounding board for Evan’s commiedy genius.
Contrast that with Humphry’s interview with Balls where it was the politician providing the comic lines…surely practising for pantomine. Whilst Davis was full of his own genius Humphrys took it easy and Balls got a pretty easy ride.
No wonder the Tories are complaining saying:
“It is beyond a joke,” the source said “It all looks far too cosy.”
“How is it possible not to think that is biased?”
A BBC spokesman said: “Our coverage of government policy is approached in the same independent and impartial way as our coverage of any story.”
The BBC also said an individual’s personal views did not impact on their ability to carry out their work in an impartial manner and there were strict guidelines which must be observed at all times.
That’s the funniest thing to come out of the BBC in years.
A spokesman from the Lubyanka Prison told Pravda that the kulaks had confessed to restricting farm output. And now it’s over to Comrade Stalin, whose collectivisation programme will boost the harvest a millionfold.
“..approached in the same independent and impartial way as our coverage of any story.”
No argument here.
Except with the ‘way’ they have chosen.
The BBC’s comment is laughable. Leftists are intellectually incapable of hiding their bias. They simply cannot help themselves.
Expect the Beeb to redouble their efforts now to ensure Labour success in 2015 before charter renewal negotiations in 2016.
‘Expect the Beeb to redouble their efforts now to ensure Labour success in 2015 before charter renewal negotiations in 2016.’
Precisely. Personal preference at the BBC aligns nicely with corporate self-interest.
Watch out for stories about ‘arts funding’ boosting the economy. Every pound ‘invested in the BBC equalling x-number of jobs created’.
7% of the UK economy is generated by our creative industries from Adele via Dr Who to James Bond. We need to build more jobs in this sector as well as manufacturing. In the US the media industry rivals military companies in its size and contribution to the economy.
Shakespeare always used the metaphor of killing the messenger to indicate the mind of the main character. Good kings rewarded messengers for bad news. Bad rulers killed them. The utter mess Osborne is now in is of his own making. Blaming the BBc for reporting the mess doesn’t cover up the mess that remains.
‘Blaming the BBc for reporting the mess doesn’t cover up the mess that remains’.
A very sound argument. And it would be convincing if only it could be applied equally to the BBC’s treatment of our late Iron Chancellor – Gordon Brown.
As for the 7% of the economy claim this is impressive – if it can be backed up with facts. Money earned from the arts industries is pretty flighty – as are our British homegrown stars. You see they don’t seem to like our high taxes and they tend to become what the BBC would term ecomonic migrants.
Jeez, Colditz, you keep plugging away at that same old ‘point’ – i.e. don’t shoot the messenger.
Your only problem with this ‘point’ on all the threads you’ve taken it to, is that no-one on here is actually making that argument.
It is the HYPOCRISY of the way that the BBC treats different interviewees, based on their political affiliations. Pure and simple – but somehow you kick off at some imagined tangent at every turn, apparently unable to actually comprehend what other people are saying, so creating an ‘imaginary friend’ to launch into print with at every opportunity.
“We need to build more jobs in this sector”
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Preferably not in any organisation clearly incompetent and with a culture of zero integrity that is incapable of being sensibly held to account or in check.
A virus is successful initially, but only by feeding off and killing the host.
I’d prefer a creative sector driven and rewarded by market forces over tribal dogma propped up by compelled ‘unique funding’. Especially when the result is crushing outlets of genuine creative freedom through subsidised dominance.
Running output through a Compliance Directorate has created quite a mess, as Pollard has neatly shown.
Protecting our financial services sector from punitive EU taxes might be imporatnt too, colditz – or are you still into bashing bankers like the BBC?
£63 billion is a lot to make up:
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/newsroom/press-releases/2012/Pages/uk-financial-services-tax-contribution-stabilises.aspx
And those creative industries are successful in spite of, not because of government. Dr Who is one of the very few successful programmes created by state funding. Adele and James Bond along with 99.9% of the creative industry have absolutely no input from the state.
But what has your post got to do with Evan Davies interviews?
Adele and James Bond along with 99.9% of the creative industry have absolutely no input from the state.
Apart from Adele learning her craft at the BRIT School, which receives state funding, and the Bond films being able to maintain a UK base thanks to tax relief for the film industry which helps to prevent jobs being lost by transfer of productions to other, cheaper countries…
Sorry, but why would we want to build more jobs in the creative sector? Jobs are a cost not a benefit. Although when looking at the BBC one can see how the mistake arises. It works on the basis – the more people it employs & the highest salaries, the more successful it is. £3.5 billion p.a. makes it the envy of the world. If you’re an arts grad.
“In May 2011, Adele caused some minor controversy with critical statements about high taxes” -wiki
Osborne is indeed making a mess of the Economy, but not for the reasons stated by the bBC and I presume your implied analysis. The mess is due to Osborne not cutting deep enough or fast enough, and continuing to pile debt on debt, rather than the bBC/Labour meme of cuts too deep too fast, tax the rich more and borrow more to restore growth. Brownian motion.
Remember when Moody’s was downgrading Italy and Spain, calling into question the intelligence of the constant borrowing/spending/bailout policies advocated by the BBC? We were told to question the timing, and the whole validity of the ratings agencies. In fact, highly-credentialed and highly-paid BBC economics editor, Stephanie “Two Eds” Flanders had this to say:
Didn’t the reaction to the US downgrade by Standard & Poor’s last summer, and even the same agency’s mass downgrade of eurozone countries last month, demonstrate that the days of worshipping at the AAA altar were past?
Funny how that approach seems to be missing here. I know it’s really Osborne’s fault for nailing his flag to that mast, and the BBC is quite rightly calling him on it, but the distinct absence of Beeboids questioning the ratings system itself now that their own über-Keynesian policies aren’t being discredited is very revealing of their mindset.
And can Evan Davis ever just STFU for a second?
‘The utter mess Osborne is now in is of his own making’
Colditz.
Ah yes, the Golden Legacy argument again.
Always has us in fits of laughter round here. Young Mohandas laughed so much he filled his nappy. Ew.
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