BBC LEFT WING?? LETS LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE

Have you EVER listened to Radio 5 or Radio 4?  The News Quiz, anything at all to do with Islam?  When Lee Rigby was decapitated on the streets of Britain a Muslim phoned up Radio 5 to complain that they were due to visit Alton Tower on the Bank Holiday and that would now have to be cancelled as it wouldn't be safe for Muslims to out in public because of the public backlash and how upset their children were to be missing Alton Towers - I kid you not!

I man had just been murdered and someone phones up to complain about their kid missing a day out a f. theme park!?  All the presenter did was to agree with the caller how awful that was, and yet anyone who dared to call in and question Islam was repeatedly told that Islam was the "religion of peace", any questioning of violence of Sunni and Shi'a was quickly shut down.

It reeks of a leftie agenda from every pore - they sooner they more to a subscription based funding system the better.

excellent Pandora

yyw - how can you equate being lsftie with being Islamic ?

I fail to see the connection.

I take it that the Guardian is the BBC equivalent of newspaper.
I have heard that whenever a crime that involves Operation Trident is reported on the on-line version, the comments box remains closed.

I do not think the BBC knows what it is tbh??????????????????????????
I don't think it is particularly leftie
been much more left wing in the past

full of feminists imo

I think it should support itself by advertising...might help it find its way again
All Media is biased one or another nowadays imo, one has to take this into account when using it

It is quite amazing the fundamental dishonesty of leftie liberals. They are fanatical in their ways and quite
prepared to twist anything to their agenda.

Is is not possible to view the BBC as anything other than left/liberal unless you are capable of being dishonest
even to yourself.

Mr 1971-your posting is one of the most sensible I have ever read on this or any other BetFair forum (apart from my postings of course)!

Thankyou Mr Slicer :-)

Er-It's Dr Slicer. I didn't spend 26 years at university just to be called Mister.
I hope this clarifies the matter!

Ha of course, Dr. :-)

An old gentleman of my acquaintance is very politically minded, however he doesn't particularly lean in any direction. He is always writing to politicians and newspapers and the BBC whenever anything bothers him. One of the longest and most fruitless sessions of correspondence was with the BBC (and a couple of MP's), about this very subject.
He said he wanted established proof that the BBC has a leftward bias as is often mooted, as it has always seemed to him that the corporation is a bit on the Conservative side.
He got no joy, as he told me at length whilst naming people and offering sound anecdotal evidence. He is completely adamant, as am I, that to put it in a nutshell - Pandora is absolutely right.

lfc, I am NOT fundamentally, or in any other form, dishonest. Your sweeping generalisation that anyone who disagrees with your, almost certainly incorrect, assertion is a liar is reprehensible.

Not that I'm clear as to what, exactly, a "leftie liberal" is.

The BBC is virtually an arm of the Tory party, it always has been. Through some adept 'marketing' and misinformation it manages to maintain this whilst indirectly purporting to be a assist to the 'left.
So, I reckon this makes the BBC, and its ignorant, unswayable, right-wing bedfellows more likely to be the ones lying. To themselves as well as to everyone else.

You have to remember too that the ones doing most of accusing are right-wing papers, in whose interests it is to perpetuate the myth.

Keep the people ignorant and misinformed and they will all end up like lfc.

Plenty of ignorant and misinformed peopul in Britain! Just watch Question Time, any political programme and any quiz show!

They're specially picked to be on those shows Slicer.

I agree completely Doctor, or just look at how many elementary grammar and spelling mistakes one sees every day on sport forums.

Percisely Mr Odds. Some peopul who say they are highly edumacated can't tell the difference between stake and stake and there and their and have and of and you're and your! Highly reperihensible.
Study- I know you have been on several quiz shows (I have seen you) so I bow to your superior knowledge. I just wonder what they teach in British schools these days, apart from Islamic studies of course! I studied at a time when one didn't just have to write one's name correctly to get a grade C at O level.

The Question Time audience is defo a case where the lefties rule.  Despite the picking of guests and the questioning by Dimbleby being pretty much centralist.  It is clear from the whooping and hollering for any lefty argument and the far more sedate clapping for a tory argument where the sentiments of the audience lie.  Load of right on lefty student sorts.  The news, newsnight and most stuff on the beeb does a good job of not being party political imo.

The way they get substandard female and ethnic minorities on various comedy panel shows also smacks of tokenism which i guess is a lefty thing.  I think the beeb, all told, though is great.  The guardian on the other hand just needs to be tolerated.  It is a total w@nker of a paper but we need it only because of the total @rsehole papers such as the sun and the mail.  If it wasn't for Nick Davies and the guardian god only knows what Murdoch would have done to the standard of tv in this country.

I suspect the guardian is the paper of choice for the majority of the beeb employers.

The guardian is my paper of choice too. A great substitute when I run out of Andrex. Andrex is also a more interesting read!

the guardian would be far too expensive for you i suspect.

Tokenism, rob, isn't a lefty thing. It's a stupid thing.
I've often thought that students are predominantly 'leftish' because they are still young and ideological enough to want some fairness in society. Before they get too old and cynical and realise you can't really change anything and those with the wealth make the rules. That said, there are plenty of right wing students. Many of whom have been cosseted and don't know what it's like to be skint or to struggle. Guess where many of these students end up?

btw, fwiw, I have NEVER ever read the Guardian. I wonder if it's any good.

If I get your drift- very clever, if I don't get your drift- I am insulted!

@rob.

The Guardian has a brilliant crossword and decent sports coverage.  The rest is horsesh1t and overpriced.  Sadly that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't still the best newspaper all told.

impresses the newsagent mind

Try posting on any of the bbc news articles that allow comment,he moderators must be the biggest shower of sandalknitting lentil munching lgbt right on  tree hugging fevkwits that ever breathed.

Slicer

  11 Jun 14 15:25 


Er-It's Dr Slicer. I didn't spend 26 years at university just to be called Mister.
I hope this clarifies the matter!

Where do you spend your time now ?

(apart from the Betfair Chit Chat forum)

So if the same story is printed in the Sun and The Mail, it's lies.

If the same story is printed in the Sun and The Guardian, it's lies, because it's in the Sun.

If the same story is printed in the Mail and The Guardian, it's lies, because it's in the Mail.

But if it's in the Guardian on its own, its true?

What about the Times, Express, Telegraph, Observer, Independent, Big Issue, War Cry, Dandy and Beano?

Wtf are you on about now taxi?

When you start a long post like that with the word "so" i guess you are just putting words into someone elses mouth.

So? 

Think the BBC do a good job to be honest - judging by the number of 'offendeds' from across the political spectrum in the little snapshot above, I'd say I'm right too!