bbc biased

[Marney]

bbc biased towards labour ifeel like all they do is attack the lib dems and conservatives we pay a huge licence fee they were going to black out prime ministers speech why didnt they do that with gorden.All this fuss about stopping child benefit for people earning over 40 thousand some people can only dream of living in a world where so much income was coming into their home. And so far we arent seeing mps in the coalition like the labour ones smug and condecending the labour party have the unions backing them and the bbc i want my licence fee back

I can't make head nor tail of your post. Sorry.

There's a very good book called Eats Shoots and Leaves. You might get a lot from it.

...and breathe...

Psst, the strike has been called off and most BBC employees earn under £40k.

BBC was biased towards the Tories in the election. If they now are towards Labour it's because it is natural to be annoyed by those in power. I complained during the election campaign, but won't be complaining now as it isn't crucial.

Having said that, I completely agree with Snorbs: you won't get a very good response on MN unless you use paragraphs and space your words out properly.

I think the BBC are very biased towards the coalition, particularly in their presentation of economic policy and the cuts. For example the Givernmenet is not like a household budget when you've overspent. If you cut you expenditure as a household you don't also cut your income. A govenrment cuts income when it cuts expenditure but this is rarely if ever explained.
(and for the record I do not vote labour)
But there you go.

I saw somewhere the BBC expenditure on job ads in newspapers - sorry, too lazy to dig it out.

The overwhelming spend is with the Guardian - if you only advertise in a left leaning paper you will most get left leaning individuals.

I have a friend who works in a production job at Radio 4 - she cannot think of one person she works with who voted Tory.

Assume a big reason for the Guardian spend is the Media Guardian supplement - this is the best place for all media jobs and is a standard place to advertise or look for roles.

They still might be biaised one way or the other but I don't think recruiting via the Media Guardian is to blame!

If the BBC spent some of their vast job advertising budget in another broadsheet - then perhaps that other broadsheet would be able to develop a Media Supplement to rival the Guardians.

The BBC is a public service broadcaster and should not be posting all its jobs exclusively to a newsaper with a definate political agenda.

we live right near to a local studio and they never ever advertise in the local paper, which is odd as there are lots of industry people here.

rotters

Well as a labour voter I've been shocked by the relatively easy ride given to the coalition, and the hard time given to "red Ed" (ffs) who is only just picking up the reins of power.

So I'd say if they are pissing everyone off, they're probably right in the middle.

I remember listening to a debate on Feedback about a perceived Palestian/Israeli bias on the beeb (honestly can't remember which side the complainant was on) and the editor said something to the effect that they weighed the complaints letters for each period and if the piles were roughly equal, they felt they were doing ok!

The BBC is shockingly biased.

They are about to present an entire "CutsWatch" series. Where was the "DeficitWatch" series?

The timing of the strike was nakedly political.

Why do they never investigate the excesses of the EU? Why has Panorama never done an expose of public sector non-jobs? Why were they so late to come to the story of immigration as an "issue of public concern"?

That's before we get to the presenters. The only out and out Tory regularly presenting on the BBC is Andrew Neil.

They used to have good production values, but even that is now going downhill.

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The BBC biased towards Labour? Is this the same BBC that ended up in court after Andrew Giligan claimed that the Iraq dossier had been "sexed up"? Righty-ho.