Bias and the BBC

stelvio · June 2007

"The BBC has failed to promote proper debate on major political issues because of the inherent liberal culture of its staff, a report commissioned by the corporation has concluded."
It reads: "There is a tendency to 'group think' with too many staff inhabiting a shared space and comfort zone."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... bbc118.xml

ankev1 · June 2007

Well there's a surprise.

One can only hope that this confirmation of the obvious will lead simoncp to explode with joy.

Unknown · June 2007

I suppose this report has come from some far right think tank.

stelvio · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Patrick Stevens

I suppose this report has come from some far right think tank.
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Nearly - a Liberal lefty thinktank - it's an internal report.

simoncp · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ankev1

Well there's a surprise.

One can only hope that this confirmation of the obvious will lead simoncp to explode with joy.
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My opposition to the BBC is not that it is biased. Like all news organisations it is biased. My opposition to the BBC is that I am forced to pay for it and that it laughably proclaims that I need to be forced to pay for it for my own good because it is uniquely unbiased, and that it knows it is unbiased because the government that owns it, and appoints its most senior staff, allows it to be its own judge and jury on complaints of bias, something which other broadcasters are not allowed to be.

Wonderful (though utterly boring) wildlife programs though!

gandalfcp · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by simoncp

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ankev1

Well there's a surprise.

One can only hope that this confirmation of the obvious will lead simoncp to explode with joy.
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My opposition to the BBC is not that it is biased. Like all news organisations it is biased. My opposition to the BBC is that I am forced to pay for it and that it laughably proclaims that I need to be forced to pay for it for my own good because it is uniquely unbiased, and that it knows it is unbiased because the government that owns it, and appoints its most senior staff, allows it to be its own judge and jury on complaints of bias, something which other broadcasters are not allowed to be.

Wonderful (though utterly boring) wildlife programs though!

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Well said. At least I'm not compelled to pay for Murdoch's drivel on pain of merciless harassment and prosecution.

papercorn2000 · June 2007

"Wonderful (though utterly boring) wildlife programs though!"

How can something be wonderful and boring?
Talk me through. Please.

(I might include you as a bit part in a movie that I am writing![:D])

God told me to skin you alive.
http://www.ekroadclub.co.uk/

Melvil · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by papercorn2000

"Wonderful (though utterly boring) wildlife programs though!"

How can something be wonderful and boring?
Talk me through. Please.

(I might include you as a bit part in a movie that I am writing![:D])

God told me to skin you alive.
http://www.ekroadclub.co.uk/
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Oxygen is wonderful (it keeps us alive) but also boring.

Do I win a prize?

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See Baby Elephants and more at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47331519@N00/

papercorn2000 · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Melvil

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by papercorn2000

"Wonderful (though utterly boring) wildlife programs though!"

How can something be wonderful and boring?
Talk me through. Please.

(I might include you as a bit part in a movie that I am writing![:D])

God told me to skin you alive.
http://www.ekroadclub.co.uk/
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Oxygen is wonderful (it keeps us alive) but also boring.

Do I win a prize?

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See Baby Elephants and more at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47331519@N00/ 
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You have never played about with liquid oxygen![:D]
Terribly irresponsible undergraduate behaviour but an arsonists delight!

God told me to skin you alive.
http://www.ekroadclub.co.uk/

Melvil · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by papercorn2000

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Melvil

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by papercorn2000

"Wonderful (though utterly boring) wildlife programs though!"

How can something be wonderful and boring?
Talk me through. Please.

(I might include you as a bit part in a movie that I am writing![:D])

God told me to skin you alive.
http://www.ekroadclub.co.uk/

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Oxygen is wonderful (it keeps us alive) but also boring.

Do I win a prize?

******************************************************************************
See Baby Elephants and more at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47331519@N00/ 
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You have never played about with liquid oxygen![:D]
Terribly irresponsible undergraduate behaviour but an arsonists delight!

God told me to skin you alive.
http://www.ekroadclub.co.uk/
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See Baby Elephants and more at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47331519@N00/

I stand corrected [:)]

redcogs · June 2007

i thought it made steam for stage and screen?

please look up to the stars.. ***

papercorn2000 · June 2007

No, that's solid CO2.

Imagine how well stuff burns in gaseous oxygen, well liquid oxygen menas a whole lot more oxygen in the same space.

Digestive biscuits were my favourite! They went up like catherine wheels!

God told me to skin you alive.
http://www.ekroadclub.co.uk/

rothbook · June 2007

Making a fuse out of potasium permanganate and glycerine and using it to
set off a sodium chlorate/sugar bomb in the concrete bins in Chapelfield Gardens,
Norwich so that seven foot yellow flames shoout out like a jet engine and clouds
of smoke billow across the park so thickly that you laugh and laugh until there is a little seepage is great fun.

Not that I ever took part in such reckless stupidity , natch.

Gary Askwith · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by papercorn2000

"Wonderful (though utterly boring) wildlife programs though!"

How can something be wonderful and boring?
Talk me through. Please.

(I might include you as a bit part in a movie that I am writing![:D])

God told me to skin you alive.
http://www.ekroadclub.co.uk/
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would that be a chic remake of Ryans Daughter and your looking for a wandering terminally confused embittered idiot looking for his very own village?[:D][;)]

Economic Growth; as dead as a Yangtze River dolphin....

papercorn2000 · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Gary Askwith

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by papercorn2000

"Wonderful (though utterly boring) wildlife programs though!"

How can something be wonderful and boring?
Talk me through. Please.

(I might include you as a bit part in a movie that I am writing![:D])

God told me to skin you alive.
http://www.ekroadclub.co.uk/
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would that be a chic remake of Ryans Daughter and your looking for a wandering terminally confused embittered idiot looking for his very own village?[:D][;)]

Economic Growth; as dead as a Yangtze River dolphin....

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No, this one: http://www.cyclingplus.co.uk/forum/topi ... _ID=133349 (about 3/4 of the way down page 1.

But I do like your idea!

God told me to skin you alive.
http://www.ekroadclub.co.uk/

Unknown · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by stelvio

"The BBC has failed to promote proper debate on major political issues because of the inherent liberal culture of its staff, a report commissioned by the corporation has concluded."
It reads: "There is a tendency to 'group think' with too many staff inhabiting a shared space and comfort zone." 

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and in English?

Do they mean that too many staff share similar views and therefore these views get accepted rather than challenged?

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