Sunday 5 January 2020

BBC`s "confluence of cock-ups"!!

It`s difficult to see the BBC replacing film of Johnson making silly errors like placing his red wreath upside down at the Cenotaph with a video taken years earlier of him with a green wreath as a cock-up, as Emily Maitlis.claims (The BBC isn`t biased, says Emily Maitlis. "It`s just a confluence of cock-ups". 29.12.19). Editing out the laughter at Johnson in a news item on a televised debate is equally hard to see as a mistake. Indeed, it is difficult to take much of what Maitlis says seriously. Is there anyone in the country who saw Prince Andrew in her interview as a "man who had really come to get things off his chest"? Similarly, could anyone have watched her Newsnight interview, packed as it was with interruptions and put-downs, with Labour`s Barry Gardiner in election week, and describe it as "impartial"?
      The director general might well refuse to accept accusations of bias from "critics who jump on a handful of examples", but the anti-Labour prejudice had been obvious since Corbyn`s election as leader (BBC staff express fear of public distrust after election coverage, 14/12/19)..During the campaign in particular, the difference in the way Labour and Tory politicians were treated on the Today programme had nothing to do with "cock-ups", and everything to do with a deliberate policy on the programme. How else can the constant interrupting, the insistence on Labour answering the question, and the refusal to prevent Tories making political points at length, which had little relevance to the question, be explained?
  Fran Unsworth, director of BBC news and current affairs, told the Guardian that "people just aren`t buying" their "denials and explanations"..Is it any wonder?

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