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Small Victory

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Green Party activist Marcus Brigstocke seems a bit put out that the BBC has told him his privileged licence fee funded platform for leftist rants isn’t quite the same during an election campaign:


Something we said, I hope.

Of course Brigstocke could have chosen to take the principled path and not appear on the show, but I guess he’s got his media profile to worry about. After all, it’s not as if he gets much exposure on the BBC.

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Update

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Re yesterday’s post – Guido reports that Chris Summers has been assigned alternative duties, and Hippiepooter points out that Summers has removed his Facebook page. And Sarah Bell has deleted Friday’s tweet linking to her Lib Dem article.

Update. Chris Summers’ replacement will have been forced to watch the following BBC training video on dealing with complaints about left-wing bias:

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Dick

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Last Friday on Radio Five Live:

Tina Fey: Will Ferrell played George Bush like he was a moron but no one seemed to think that he was going at him too hard.

Richard Bacon: Yeah. I’m not sure how many other ways there are to play him.

So says the university drop-out about the Yale graduate.

Update. I am reminded that Bush also has an MBA from Harvard (hat tips to Asuka in the comments and Jim Miller via email. Jim also points me to this item on his blog for further evidence that Bush isn’t as dumb as the haters would like to think.)

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Perfect

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Labour Candidate is BBC Bias Complaints Judge.

(Hat-tips to all who highlighted this in the comments)

Update. Craig has more on this. Good work Ryan.

Update 2. I see that Sarah Bell, the BBC hack who couldn’t find a single non-LibDem supporter in the constituency of her LibDem Facebook friend Susan Kramer, hasn’t tweeted for a few days. Told to keep a low profile, perhaps? (Facebook screenshot from Ryan, via Beeb Bias Craig)

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Open thread

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I’ve been away for a few days and blogging from me will remain light as I catch up on things, but I do have enough time to recommend the ongoing excellent analysis of BBC election coverage by the tireless Beeb Bias Craig. And those who only read the RSS feed for this blog are missing out on some great observations in the comment threads.

Let this be a new open thread, a modern open thread, an open thread fair for all. Ask not what the open thread can do for you, ask what you can do for the open thread. We are in this together, so come with us and build a better open thread.

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