Damien

I do. That Google search doesn't prove they are 'Guardianistas'.

As for the BBC recruiting in The Guardian. They have a big media section, I mean really big. It's viewed in pretty much the same way the public sector views them as a place to get jobs. Rather disingenuous to use that as evidence as it will be very heavily influenced by the fact The Guardian is viewed as the place to look for media jobs. The other papers either don't have a job section at all or the section is very small compared to the massive Guardian one.

As for the quotes. Well that's what I said, they have a typically left wing staff but also as I mentioned they are in a large part working in Comedy, Drama and other non-news programming.

It's impossible to have individuals who are unbiased. Just Impossible. Everyone will have political opinions and professions can often tend to be self-selecting. It's true across the creative industries, from which the BBC employs, that it's heavily liberal. It is that to which Marr was referring. This is also true of ITV, Channel 4 and so on. You can't get a balance of left/right opinion in media.

The question is the influence of a editional line of reporting. This is very evident in News International where there is a strict line to which the staff will write too. This is not in place at the BBC News which attempts to be impartial. They do reports to measure the impact their staff's personal bias is reflected in news reports and they do admit it happens. That is a far cry from a institutional attempt to stick to a left wing position.

Also worth noting their Political Editor was a member of the Conservatives when he was younger.