A B-BBC reader writes;
“Simon Kelner, editor
in chief of the Independent, is not in the BBC but is of the BBC, someone with
a mindest firmly in line with the BBC….and it seems quite happy to defend the BBC against accusations that it might be abit on the Liberal side…..(and the
BBC were still calling the rioters and looters ‘protesters’ on Wednesday’ he
should note)….
Letter from Simon Kelner
Thursday, 11 August 2011
‘So now we know it’s serious.
Not only has Parliament been recalled from its summer recess, but BBC1 will
tonight broadcast a special edition of Question Time on the riots, the first
time the programme has had its own holiday break interrupted. What a relief!
Just when you were worried that an insufficient number of people had offered an
opinion on the disturbances, along come David Dimbleby and co to tell us what
they think.
……And add to that the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph castigating the
BBC (didn’t you just know it would be its fault!) for their general liberalism
and, in particular – on the first night of disorder – referring to rioters as
protesters. Each to their view and we can but wonder at how opinion splits on
party lines! I will offer only this thought on an aspect that seems to have
been forgotten, amid the rush to judgement. If the police hadn’t gunned down
someone who, it is now believed, did not shoot at them, none of this would have
happened and we could have gone on in blissful ignorance of the social and
economic divisions that blight Britain.’