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    Quote Originally Posted by redneck View Post
    10 in favour of Tories, 7 including neutrals in favour of Labour.
    Neutrals in favour of Labour?

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    As I have stated there is an ongoing campaign led by the BBC, to save Labour. In this context regarding the newspapers imho neutral means the status quo ie Labour

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    Quote Originally Posted by redneck View Post
    As I have stated there is an ongoing campaign led by the BBC, to save Labour. In this context regarding the newspapers imho neutral means the status quo ie Labour
    Try that in English would you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by redneck View Post
    Listening to the BBC and Sky news, I detect a clear anti Tory bias.
    This is a joke, right? Whatever about the BBC, Sky News should just be done with it and rename itself Dave ... oh wait, is that name taken? At times their support of him reminds me of Fox drooling all over Palin. Quality 'news' channels, Rupert.

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    Quote Originally Posted by redneck View Post
    As I have stated there is an ongoing campaign led by the BBC, to save Labour...
    Conservatives will cut the BBC budgets, freeze the license fee, and are making generally ominous noises about what they will do in power. So thats a motive for what you have detected but who staffs the BBC is far more fundamental to the problem.

    The BBC is biased, and non-impartial (BBC often claims to be impartial), and this has been remarked on by more than one of its bigwigs. The bias is cultural; metropolitan, liberal left leaning, made up of the highly paid frappachino crowd who are pro-abortion, pro-immigration, pro-diversity, anti-Christianity, anti-Israel, anti-working class, pro-EU, pro-gay, pro-yoof, pro-ethnic (eg. aim to make the BBC staff 20% ethnic), and well disposed towards most other pet causes of 'progressives'.

    Just taking the single issues of the EU and immigration, the BBC editorial position is way, way out of step with public opinion (the people paying their salaries). The BBC response is to claim that on particular issues it is not biased, perhaps most well known is the statement that the BBC is not "pro-multiculturalism", which is frankly laughable when you consider the number of ethnics it has placed into top flight jobs over the last 5 years.

    Often or not ive noticed and complained about bias in their news output. This bias is introduced by editorial omission- stories covered in the entire media spectrum for a particular day just dont appear on BBC evening news. Bias also enters their news cycle through an inane focus on 'analysis' rather than 'facts', Nick Robinson was previously mentioned. If some of the bias of the people staffing the BBC happens to coincide with New Labour policies (such as immigration) then its not so visible, but when they oppose, such as in the iraq war, they are highly visible.

    The biased BBC blog posted earlier in the thread is operated by a TUV man, afaik, and he looks to be a bit of a ranter.
    "I don't think Martin McGuinness necessarily intended to kill anyone while in the IRA." factual

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    The last couple of times I've seen Question Time, they seem to have invited along a 'neutral' who is basically a 2nd Tory (Carol Vorderman, Kelvin McKenzie). Dimbleby is definitely a Tory; he has a great habit of letting the Tory speak on, while cutting off guests from other parties.
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