Ex Beeboid Rosie Millard….a voice from the trough…
The BBC left leaning?…..All an agenda by the right wing Press.
The BBC isn’t watched by the Northern Labour voting working classes…and therefore it isn’t Left Wing because it must reflect its audience….(So it’s the type of audience which watches the BBC that defines whether the BBC is biased?….therefore Question Time is biased?)
The Daily Mail’s front cover sets the BBC’s news agenda (presumably to deny and counter everything the Daily Mail reports)
Question Time is gone through with a fine tooth comb to check for bias…..but it does reflect the BBC culture…David Dimbleby is absolutely the voice of the BBC.
Vast majority of BBC voices are from Oxbridge….they are promoting the status quo…batting for the Establishment…conservative, small C.
The BBC attracts a certain creative type….you could say they were Liberal…but not really…most send their children to private school.
The BBC tries to give a viewpoint…er…access to all people who pay the licence fee…it leaves out the working class…it leaves out people from the North…you hear the same commentators all the time…it’s not left leaning…may look that way but only because it wants to have an argument against the government…which happens to be right wing.
The BBC makes sure all other broadcasters maintain a certain standard of broadcasting…it is a rising tide (red?) that lifts all broadcasters.
and it aims to spread its spending to keep taxi drivers and hairdressers employed in the sticks.
That’s socialism…well, good.
Dellers is in fine form on that Telegraph podcast – when, that is, he can get word in edgeways against Millard’s strident, belligerent attempts to dominate the discussion (a familiar tactic from the Left whenever they feel their precious ‘truth’ is under attack).
Still, the podcast does one thing extremely well: it illustrates just what a truly non-biased BBC might actually sound like, if it ever had the courage to live up to the demands of its Charter. Millard might come across as a closed-minded, bolshy progressive, but Dellers is funny, acerbic and refreshingly unafraid to speak his mind on the subject of the BBC’s institutionalised bias.
As he quips at one point: ‘[The BBC is]…a socialist job creation scheme.’
Well, quite. Delingpole hits the nail on the head with the kind of simple truth that goes straight to the point.
Highly recommended listening for every one here, and a further reminder why James Delingpole remains an essential voice in the on-going fight against the BBC’s inbred bias.
I was actually quite disappointed with Delingpole. He could have nailed the argument with some concrete examples – Balen and 28gate spring to mind, not to mention the many hundreds, if not thousands, that have been posted on Biased BBC over the years.
You know the BBC’s bias by its’ choice of sources on speeddial to quote:
Maidstone foreign prison riot
Prison Officers Association vice-chairman Ralph Valerio said…
Andrew Neilson, from the Howard League for Penal Reform, said…
People guaranteed to highlight the “cuts” agenda, and a bleeding heart that will reliably say its the fault of the prison service, not the rioters. Every event is used as an excuse to flaunt the BBC’s political agenda.
Even Five Live, who never stray far from Labour talking points or talking heads outdo themselves on Sundays.
There’s a history of left leaning shows on the Sabbath. Kate Silverton, the awful Double Take, and Seven Day Sunday, of course, didn’t even pretend, but Sunday Breakfast is really upping the ante.
After ninety minutes of Labour and Union representatives they eventually dragged in a single CBI spokesman for a chat. For the rest of the 86 minutes it was one Labour viewpoint after another, interspersed with the occasional text on the subject of… I kid you not… would you eat your pet?
Part of the problem on this show lies with Tony “English by default” Livesey, an interviewer of such poor quality the average toddler might make a better fist of it, but what is going on with Tory Central Office? Why are they not putting up people to put their point of view forward? If they are why aren’t they getting to air?
Pienaar is on at 10. Usually that means a ten minute studio chat with a few lefties, followed by a two minute down the line with a single Tory, just for balance.
i heard the cbi stuff, unfortunately they, like the tories, need to wise up to what they are up against.
this morning’s r4 news allowed labour to parade its tax credit for living wage policy, the bbc then followed the plug with a `balancing` quote from the cbi saying the economy is too weak to afford the policy.
the item immediately following was based on a cbi report hailing the growing strength of the economy!
I’ve long been dubious about the predictive value of the left-wing/right-wing label. Robert Mugabe and the Dalai Lama – both arguably left wingers? Millard defining left-wing as Northern Labour voting working class shows how flexible the definition is.
Out of curiosity I gave the BBC the Political Compass test, attempting to answer on the basis of the BBC output. Not however on the basis of the lifestyle of a well-paid BBC personality/manager whose lifestyle choices are often diametrically opposed to the views they promote.
Do you agree with the results?
Didn’t succeed with the graph. Try here. http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.38&soc=-6.82
For comparison. Check out how the Political Comapss placed well-known international politicians,
http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/internationalchart.png
You need to take that PC test (oops, Political Compass) with a pinch of salt, interesting though it is. Look at the placing top right quadrant position of international politicians (all the major UK party leaders) in the top right quadrant. Over the last 8 years I have taken the test at least 6 times and have never come out of the BOTTOM LEFT box, my average is where Francois Hollande is…this from a Thatcherite with a decade of being slagged off as a right wing loony/extremist, Tory Boy which reading a cross section of my comments on dozens of sites is probably the right impression and yet the PC test always leaves me well left and libertarian of Ed Miliband etc. 8-0
Nothing wrong with the old XY plot left/right authoritarian/libertarian concept, I recall seeing it many decades ago, hardly new. The problem is that battery of questions are so patently daft and crude I can’t see how they can be used to identify anything approaching those dimensions. You can’t believe anything a politician says anyway.
As for Stalin, which scale measures murdering 30 million people? Does that qualify him as “authoritarian?” And National Socialism is…?
Great thing about questionnaires is they can generate numbers, but that doesn’t mean those numbers mean anything – other than a number generated by the author’s design of “computer model”
That is why the position of so many people on the plot is counterintuitive. Its not science because it has a number.
The BBC employs journalists that reliably spout the approved left wing line. We all know what that is.
Broadcasting House with Jane Garvey is back on the hot topic of Russell Brand and asking us if the young want a revolution. This is discussed by two young people, one of whom agrees with Brand and the other a member of Labour urging youths to organise and vote. Almost beyond parody.
…………..thereby cunningly shifting the “centre ground” to somewhere between the left and the far left.
“Poll reveals public perception of BBC leftwing bias.”
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/11/03/poll-reveals-public-perception-bbc-leftwing-bias#3ZzSM95dh7pbmZAG.99
“More people think BBC has bias to left than bias to right – poll.
“Majority of Tory voters say corporation is biased towards the left in poll that shows decline in Labour lead.”
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/nov/03/bbc-left-right-poll
Even the staunchest, most sycophantic political supporters of BBC-NUJ, at ‘Guardian-Observer,’ can see that BBC has a few problems. Avoiding the results of ‘Observer’s own poll, of four opinions (link), three have been selected in true Rushbridger manner to reflect the minority leftist line of more public finance for left-Islamic BBC output. (There is one dissenting voice allowed, that of Mr Butler.)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/03/bbc-faces-many-challenges?
I heard Rosie Millard. Apart from her appallingly patronising and ignorant views of people in the north of England, -did she really say that ‘the working classes’ there don’t watch the BBC so it can’t be left-wing?- her analysis of the BBC’s political standpoint was excruciating. During her ten years at the BBC, she said, she detected no left-wing bias, quite the contrary in fact, the management are almost exclusively Oxbridge and thus conservative. Ludicrous. Thus in her view the BBC is not left wing enough. A narrative I guess we will here more and more of over the next few months.
The idea that Oxbridge turns out thousands of people with exclusively conservative (right wing) views is laughable and rather sickening. Trouble is, those with her mind-set and outlook will love it, especially the dinner party/art gallery/media people she presumably lives amongst.
Champagne socialist Rosie Millard, buying four houses, £40,000 in debt, bank account frozen, four credit cards, doesn’t know anyone who lives within their means …
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cardsloans/article-1589110/Why-Rosie-Millard-is-flat-broke.html