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Originally Posted by Damien
Not sure where the BBC Staff are 'Guardianistas' comes from either.
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Ignoring the rest as we'll agree to disagree the BBC advertises in the Guardian, according to the link above it apparently now conducts interviews with the Guardian, and just a Google for the terms shows some interesting results.
I would speculate you read the Guardian, Damien?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...+guardianistas
There is supposedly impartiality in all TV news. I do wonder how an organisation chartered to be impartial, etc, can reconcile impartiality with...
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"I do remember... the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. I'll always remember that"
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Jane Garvey
BBC Five Live, May 10th, 2007, recalling May 2nd, 1997.
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"We need to foster peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking."
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Ben Stephenson
BBC Drama Commissioning Controller
Guardian, July 16th 2009
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Originally Posted by Andrew Marr
The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias,
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...rrect-BBC.html
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Michael Buerk attacks 'politically correct' BBC
BBC presenter Michael Buerk has criticised the corporation for being "out of touch" with public opinion.
The veteran journalist accused BBC staff of making the left-wing Guardian newspaper their “bible” and political correctness "their creed”.
Mr Buerk, who presents Radio 4’s Moral Maze, was reviewing the memoir of his former colleague, Peter Sissons, who also attacks the BBC for having “institutional bias”.
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I'm sure I could find loads more, but then if the BBC claim openly to be unbiased and their output suits one's point of view they must be unbiased.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Could I just point out that there appears to be some confusion between source of news and choice of source of news.
The graph shows that 73% of news is sourced from TV (which consists (mainly) of BBC News, ITV News, Sky News, and a couple of smaller players). BBC is then the choice of source of news for 70% of the 73% (which equals 51% of news sourced).
No one makes anyone watch the BBC news, viewers just prefer it.
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You forgot the online output Hugh.
The BBC also has domination over radio, print is the only media in which it does not have by far the largest share of viewership / listeners.
I would imagine some people prefer it because we're all forced to pay for it if we own a TV.
Anyway I'm starting to turn this into an attack on the BBC, which is somewhat OT. My initial point still stands that the idea of News International getting their hands on Sky News somehow causing issues with plurality is farcical.