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The Guardian of the Airwaves?Bias and the BBC. by Martin McElwee and Glyn GaskarthThis recent report from C-change, has documented what many
people have long suspected. The
BBC is guilty of systematic left-wing bias in its political reporting.
The authors looked at the transcripts of five years of Panorama
programmes and at the way the BBC had covered the issue of grammar schools.
They compared what they found with how the Guardian and Telegraph newspapers had
covered the same issue from the left and right respectively. The authors found no systematic bias against the Conservative
Party and no obvious bias in their coverage of Europe and the euro.
However, they did find seven clear themes in which the BBC reporting
showed consistent left wing bias, anti-free market, pro-regulation,
anti-business, pro-increased public spending, anti united states, anti-Bush and
anti-war. On grammar schools the BBC coverage mirrored that of the
Guardian in giving excessive coverage to anti-grammar school bodies and reports,
and in continually harping on about Kent which suffered a critical Ofsted report
on its grammar schools. The BBC gave
almost as much prominence to the anti-grammar school views of Roy Hattersley as
the Guardian does. However, he is a
Guardian columnist. The pamphlet is full of specific examples substantiating these claims. iGreens will list some in detail over the coming months. In the meantime it is available for £5 from C-change. Clutha House, 10 Storey’s Gate, London SW1p 3AY www.cchange.org.uk |
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