Monday, 2 February 2009

BBC BIAS EXPOSED ONCE AGAIN

It's not often I read the Daily Record but this comment (or perhaps diatribe) by Joan Burnie sums up my opinion of the British Broadcasting Corporation, named the EBC by many north of Watford.  The BBC's biase has always been towards the south-east of England.  The quality of news we receive in Scotland is laughable.  'Scottish' programmes are made for England, such as the cringeworthy Monarch of the Glen, but I admit the History of Scotland is one of the best they've produced for years.

For many, television is their sole entertainment and the BBC have a vast amount of money to spent because of the mandatory licence fee imposed.  One suggestion I could give them - that's to stop sending so many staff on reporting missions.  If newspapers behaved like that they would have been bankrupt years ago.

I'm still waiting to know the actual numbers of staff who were in the US for the inauguration.  Perhaps a FOI letter is the next course of action ...

5 comments:

calicolyst said...

Well, just move London up into Scotland. That'll fix that.

subrosa said...

Interesting solution calicolyst lol. I only want my 9% of the licence fee to be quality TV, not brain-washing content to assist with labour's social engineering policies.

Stuart Winton said...

But surely the news isn't legitimate unless a reporter is actually 'on location'? I mean, if Mary Nightingale had't reported the ITV news from Trafalgar Square last night it would have detracted from news values?

Seriously though, I think to an extent the newspapers have followed suit with excess; how much pages and sections did the average paper have thirty years ago?

brownlie said...

I met Joan Burnie a couple of times. Strangely enough, I still like women.

subrosa said...

I do wish you'd warn me not to read a comment like this when I'm drinking tea!

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