Who do Channel 4 & ITV support?

[megcleary]

Am on a political learning curve, if BBC are impartial, Sky+Murdoch= Tory, who do the other channels swing too or are they impartial too?

[voteanythingbutBNPplease]

hmmm, I think some people view the BBC as being leftish rather than impartial.

[longfingernailspaintedblue]

BBC News = lefty-liberal Guardianesque bias, as admitted by Andrew Marr - but they do try hard to appear impartial. They have far more leftwing heavyweight interviewers than rightwing - the only out and out BBC right-winger is Andrew Neil.

ITV = fairly overt rightwing bias. Bradby is obviously a Tory.

Channel 4 = fairly overt left-wing bias but with some of the best news analysis and interviews.

Channel 5 = who knows?

Sky = actually fairly balanced despite Murdoch. They have a mixture of rightwingers (like Adam Boulton), leftwingers (like Glen O'Glaza) and thick (like Kay Burley).

[claig]

agree with longfingernails

[megcleary]

Ha ha at the Kay Burley quote, am partial to Andrew Neil and there was a channel 4 programme sunday it think with Jon Snow which was fab about the questions not being answered.

Just watched the Yes Minister clip where Jim Hacker details who the papers are read by near wet myself laughing.

Cheers for replying.

[claig]

never watch ITV news or Channel 5, shows that the serious channels i.e. BBC and Channel 4 have a left bias. In my opinion most of the media have a left bias. It is only the Mail and the Telegraph that are right-wing. Murdoch's papers switch between supporting Labour and Conservative

[crystal123]

LOL! the BBC are biased towards the Labour party.

[longfingernailspaintedblue]

I think Lebedev is interesting.

He now owns the Independent and Evening Standard - the Indy has advocated voting for a hung Parliament (ie Labour/Lib Dem) whilst the Evening Standard has come out for the Tories.

[ArcticRoll]

Nick Robinson, BBC political editor was member of Tory party when he was student.

[longfingernailspaintedblue]

Here is that wonderful Yes, Prime Minister clip.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

[claig]

ArcticRoll, I think the policy comes from the top, down the hierarchy, editors, controllers etc. I don't know who the current boss is. But Greg Dyke was a Labour man through and through. During the petrol strike, many lorry drivers refused to be interviewed by the BBC because they thought they were biased.

[megcleary]

I don't think politics now is any different to Yes Minister.......

[claig]

I think you're right megcleary. Human nature and power politics don't change. The same sort of intrigue etc. used to go on in the court of Henry VIII

fantastic quote in that Yes Minister clip
"The Morning Star is read by people who think another country should run the country, the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think that it is"

[longfingernailspaintedblue]

Does anyone actually watch Channel 5 news?

Why do they even bother?

[claig]

does anyone actually watch Channel 5?

[megcleary]

There's a fifth channel..............

[jkklpu]

BBC political editor and his deputy are known to be Tories but as professional journalists for the BBC, their job is to challenge politicians of all colours. Anyone remember the Hutton enquiry and its fallout? Do you really think the BBC is in Labour's pocket?

[Tashtodd]

I've been really irritated by Nick Robinson on his BBC blogs over the past few months. Ashcroft, Ashcroft, Ashcroft like a dog with a bloody bone. They don't call it Brown Broadcasting Company for nothing. No semblance of impartiality whatsoever

[longfingernailspaintedblue]

I hate Nick Robinson. Not because of his political persuasion - I actually think he is slightly left-leaning, personally - and yes, I know about his student Toryism - but because he is crap. He loves hearing the sound of his own voice. Instead of just showing us what the politicians have said, he "interprets" it every day for us as though we are 5 years old.

That new girl Laura Kuennsberg (?) seems so much better.

[claig]

I remember Christine Hamilton on a Louis Theroux documentary saying that the upper classes referred to the BBC as "Buggers Broadcasting Communism"

[Tashtodd]

Claig

[Shaz10]

Isn't Channel 5 news done by Sky?

[claig]

found some other funny ones for the BBC

Blair Brown Cronies
British Bolshevik Commune

www.abbreviations.com/acronyms/FUNNIES/21

[claig]

British Brainwashing Corporation

[pinkfizzle]

nice.. calling one of the longest serving, highest paid female presenter thick... nice one...

[claig]

it's quite a good site. Just looked up the IMF

Imposing Misery anbd Famine
It's Mugabe's Fault

off to spend a few hours on there