Have to agree. I work in a field that has a similar bias, and I find it irritating. I have seen people turned down for jobs because they were not sufficiently liberal. It's no better than tories blackballing people they don't agree with.
"If the Germans land in Ireland they will be welcomed as liberators".
How long before RTE makes a similar admission?
Thankfully that story from the Evening Standard is free of any bias whatsoever.Originally Posted by asteroid
Why does having stories many on the right disagree with automatically mean it has a left wing bias?
Good thing we have no right wing bias, like Fox, who a few days ago informed us that "the stock market has gone up since the Iraq war in spite of this liberal pessimism you see they might whine but the market knows things are going well"
So men and women in uniform, I'm sure you'll be glad to know your 2000 or so friends who died and the 100 000 or so Iraqis you killed dies to make a few ******************************************s rich.
Except, of course, Fox are only talking about the Dow, one of the smallest of US stockmarkets in terms of its basket. Also they omit to mention that the Dow has only climbed about 3% since 2000 (even treasuries have done better than that), that only a very few companies are fuelling recent rises (specifically energy and military firms) and that if you compensate for underlying inflation, the markets are actually falling.
But hey, that'd be right wing bias at work!
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Strikes me that the BBC is representative of what is good in the Brits.
It ain't broke, so...
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when creating them
There is an article about this in this months Prospect. Talk about hand wringing muppets. The self-loathing horsesh*t so beloved of Fintan O'Foole and his right on brigade.
The editorial position and organisation (pro-diversity) is fine - just don't pretend to be "fair and balanced" when you are coming from an editorial line.
You obviously dont hear much Gerry Ryan in the morning FT. His casual and off the cuff remarks about current affairs are nearly always pro-government, pro- bertie, pro- the haughey family. I don't hear anyone else making similar breezy remarks about other politicians.How long before RTE makes a similar admission?
Surely the basis of RTEs successful run of Eddie Hobbs Rip Off Republic was the call for small government and the only thing that mattered was the power of the consumer over the rights of citizens?
RTE may well have been dominated by WP types throughout the 80s (for all the good it did them!) but I for one don't see any left wing bias there at the moment.
The only RTE person to question anything to do with the status quo in recent times was George Lee, and he wasn't exactly calling for red revolution.
'It would be a fine memorial to the men who have died so splendidly if we could, over their graves, build a bridge between North and South...' Major Wille Redmond MP, 1917
How very dare you, accusé the Evening Standard of such bias by inference . Why its owners -Daily Mail and General Trust- are involved in the very same areas of business as the BBCs, be it Radio, Television, various publications etc. Why would they want to drag the image of the media down? ....Thankfully that story from the Evening Standard is free of any bias whatsoever.
Seriously, though the BBC in many ways, follows lap-dog like after the corporate media. And as BBC founder Lord Reith wrote of the establishment: "They know they can trust us not to be really impartial" (think of Iraq)
And people forget what corporate media actually means, its a corporation reporting on the actions of other corporations. What exists here and in the UK, is, in the main, a corporate media system. Are we then to expect that system to go and tell the truth about a world dominated by corporations?
Pfft, don't make me larf! [to be said in english tabloid accent (coughs...)]
I mean, even leaving the tabloids aside, the 'broadsheet press' (not just the Telegraph but the Indpendent and the Guardian etc) in the UK likes to keep shtum about how it depends for 75% of its revenue on corporate advertising.
Is that not an open and apparent bias against say telling the truth with respect to catastrophic climate change? About its roots in mass consumerism and corporate obstructionism - when they are themselves profit-oriented businesses dependent on advertisers for 75 per cent of their revenues? Sheesh give me the BBC any day with that cart load O' bias....
Having said that - despite my lapdog sentiment above (and indeed the fact that its senior managers are appointed by the government - truth is hard to tell wrt say Iraq given that...) the possiblity that a sliver of non-corporate dominated and vetted viewpoint slips through in the bbc is both heartening and 'a good thing'.
The Mad Mullahs Of The Mainstream Media
Finally, put "bbc" into, medialen's search box to find a multitude of errors, pro-corporate and state propaganda and basically right wing bias.Jowell's speech came two days before the Guardian devoted just 275 words on page 11 - sandwiched, appropriately enough, between two large adverts - to the news that British newspapers are "the least trusted in Europe".
Research conducted by Eurobarometer, the polling arm of the European Commission, found that British papers were trusted by 20% of the population - less than half the European Union average of 46%. Fully 75% said they "tended not to trust" the written press. The next worst result was Italy - where the media is dominated by billionaire prime minister Silvio Berlusconi - where trust was 39%. (Ian Black, 'British newspapers are "the least trusted in Europe"', the Guardian, April 24, 2002)
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