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Originally Posted by Hugh
From the previous thread
The BBC didn't select the audience, ICM (an independent polling company) did.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...as-claims.html
The BBC commissioned ICM and didn't know the details or just refused to confirm them? Has ICM come up with any answers? Does ICM always get the job? Maybe the perceived 'bias' was due to all the Tory supporters in the audience having nothing to cheer about because DC stayed well clear...
Just found this in the Mail:
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BUT this alone wasn’t the problem with the audience on Thursday night. After some investigation, journalists managed to convince the BBC – who initially promised ‘transparency’, then tried to suppress the information – to reveal the details of how they formed the audience.
They used a ratio, they said, to break the audience up according to which political party they supported.
The ratio was 5:5:4:3:2:2:1, with the Conservatives and Labour getting the 5s, the Lib Dems on 4, Ukip on 3, the SNP and Greens on 2, and Plaid Cymru on 1. This meant that roughly, in an audience of 200, only about 50 people were not of a Left-wing persuasion.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3XqcW3aCh