I see Entwistle has been all over the BBC this morning as Newsnight incompetence becomes the story yet again!
A BBC Newsnight report in which an abuse victim accused a former Tory politician of sex abuse should “never” have been broadcast, BBC director general George Entwistle says. He gave an unreserved apology to Lord McAlpine after it wrongly implicated him in abuse at care homes in Wales.
Yeah, and of course, there is the proverbial ongoing detailed investigation as to what went wrong at Newsnight. I can save them a lot of time and money. It is the innate BBC bias and hatred of ANYTHING or ANYONE related to the Thatcher years that clouded their judgement over the “Senior Conservative figure in Thatcher Government” story they pushed out with apparent relish. Now the consequences loom and their is silence from the comrades at Newsnight. I watched it last night and it was a horror show, did you see it?
The underlying problem for the BBC is that it continues to believe it has “the trust” of the British people whilst in fact all it ever does is systematically betray that trust. The BBC is institutionally BIASED and this manifests itself in all sorts of ways. Rather than pretend it is unbiased, it should embrace the left wing bias that pervades it. However at the same time, it should uncouple itself from enforcing us to fund this bias and make its own way in the world under its own financial resources. Let those who want leftist news pay for it.