Michael Buerk: BBC staff read Guardian "like their bible"

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Yet more confirmation of what we all know.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372559/Left-wing-shallow-oh-politically-correct--verdict-BBC-Michael-Buerk.html

Yes I agree that free schools and academies are a good start. But we have a long way to go.

newwave, I have never been on the Darkside, I never supported New Labour.

People who say that the BBC is biased generally mean 'it's not biased enough towards my own political affiliations'.

Tory media loves to bash the Beeb for both commercial and ideological reasons. Neither Murdoch nor the Mail nor the Telegraph empires are objective on this.

'People who say that the BBC is biased generally mean 'it's not biased enough towards my own political affiliations'.'

Do you include the Director General of the BBC in that?

'BBC Director General Mark Thompson has admitted the corporation was guilty of a 'massive' Left-wing bias in the past.
The TV chief also admitted there had been a 'struggle' to achieve impartiality and that staff were ' mystified' by the early years of Margaret Thatcher's government.'

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1308215/Yes-BBC-biased-Mark-Thompson-admits-massive-lean-Left.html

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1308215/Yes-BBC-biased-Mark-Thompson-admits-massive-lean-Left.html#ixzz1IPRBvbI1

"free schools" I understand that those who set them up will be guaranteed a place for their children even if they dont meet the entrance criteria.

Free schools are for precious ponces who think their darling children are to fragile to mix with the hoi polloi.

At least the users of private schools pay for privileged treatment, free schoolers want everyone else to pay for theirs.

Toby Young's school has rigged it that pupils from the nearest primary school (council house area) is outside the catchment area whilst schools in "better" areas but further away are in the catchment area. It was said that the railway separating Youngs school from the "dodgy" school was a "natural barrier". It gives a new meaning to "from the wrong side of the tracks".

Young is a supercilious smug cunt who really deserves a slap on principal.

As for religious free schools they are wrong on so many levels.

Claig please stop using the Daily Hate as a scource of information it is warping your world view.

But it is only the Daily Mail that exposes the hypocrisy of the progressives. If I were to stop reading the Mail and start reading the Guardian, I would be truly in the dark and would believe that climate catastrophe was real and that George Monbiot made sense.

and I may even start to believe that reading Polly was not a folly.

climate catastrophe is real and George Monbiot does make sense.

Do you really think we can continue to pump shit into the environment ad
infinitum without any problems?. Why do you think asthama (for example) has increased so much.

How about the smogs of Mexico City and Los Angeles.

Newwave - George Monbiot?????????

Really??

I'm with Claig here

I don't agree with pumping shit into the environment, which is why I linked the article about nuclear waste from Sellafield. I have my theories about the increase in asthma, but they are not to do with the environment.

I think you have been lied to about climate catastrophe. I think there is a political agenda behind it, one that suits the billionaires and I believe it is pushed by their puppets.

pushed by their "cabs for hire"

Right - I'm no longer with Claig.

The agenda that suits the billionaires - elucidate - please???

Is the 'evil billionaires' a DM theory??

claig, the polar ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising this is a fact.

If it is a scam, who gains and how?.

Yes. Climate change is all bollocks. That's why almost all serious scientists agree it's happening.

I believe the Daily Mail did the world a service when it exposed Climategate and showed what was going on.

Spiderslegs, so the Daily Telegraph and Spectator have not informed you, they have only given you half the picture. Read the Daily Mail and read between the lines and the picture will become a little clearer.

The Mail should be called the Daily Jeyes as it is only fit to wipe your backside with

newwave, that would be taking the thread off topic. Look into it. Ask yourself why what happened in Climategate happened. Do some research and you will see cui bono and you will understand why it is so important to some people.

Come on claig dont be reticent, who gains and how.

It is a huge subject. If I told you, you wouldn't believe me. It is best for you to find out yourself. Then you will believe it. Put down your Monbiot and search for the truth. What you find will not be pleasant.

Oh God.

I hate to say this.

But I'm with Claig when it comes to climate change.

Really.

There is an industry behind it.

spiderslegs, I must say that the Daily Telegraph is fantastic on climate change. Christopher Booker is exceptional in his expose.

Christopher Brooker is excellent

Hope you all feeling suitably chastened after your ridiculous reactionary love in last night. You talk bollox and no wonder you only dare express this on an anoynomous internet forum. Bet in RL you keep schtum about climate change being a myth etc. And claig's equating New Labour with socialism and progressive politics is getting tedious now as is utterly misleading and I suspect she knows this. They're totally unconnected as New Labour is just Tory lite. And LFN is clearly posting on here to get lefties in a lather and to give the loopy rightwingers a platform. Unfortunately these loopy lot now have the keys to the country.

The last one to leave and all that...........

In real life (not in the world of the Guardian) most people don't believe that climate change is man made. That is why Michael Buerk said '

a left-wing culture means the national broadcaster has been cast ?adrift of the overriding national sentiment? on issues such as climate change.'

This is a poll of people in the UK
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1227745/Most-Britons-dont-believe-climate-change-man-made.html

This is a poll of people in the USA
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/09/climate-change-debate-human-activity

It's the same the world over. The people don't believe it and the "cabs for hire" become more hysterical in their attempt to convince people.

I know that Labour aren't really socialists, I know that many are "cabs for hire". But they are the mainstream ones taht pretend that they are socialists. They are the ones that have the ability to make changes. People like Arthur Scargill have no possibility of influencing events, "cabs for hire" do.