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April 23, 2005Media Bias in BritainTory fury as BBC sends hecklers to bait Howard The BBC was last night plunged into a damaging general election row after it admitted equipping three hecklers with microphones and sending them into a campaign meeting addressed by Michael Howard, the Conservative leader.Posted by Tully at April 23, 2005 08:25 PM Comments
Wow! Although more minor, coming on the heels of the last scandals where phony BBC stories led to a scientist committing suicide after the Iraq war, this might be enough to finally sink the BBC, or force a major upheaval, with plenty of upper-level sackings until the biased, muck-racking "journalists" return to actual reporting instead of making it up. Posted by: PatHMV at April 23, 2005 08:54 PMUnless the Labour majority weakens alot more than I expect, I don't see the votes for that to happen. After all, from a mgt POV, measures have already been taken to reign the Beeb in - they haven't had time to take effect yet, so this just solidifies the reformers' hands. I do think it'll slow the rise of viewer Beeb trust levels. The blindness in the BBC response is what's most concerning. Posted by: c3 at April 24, 2005 10:43 AMSounds to me like the hecklers would have been heckling anyway... at least we now have these useful idiots on camera... Posted by: Ron Atkinson at April 24, 2005 10:35 PMThe BBC was proved substantially right over the Iraq war reports: if blame for the suicide rests anywhere, it is with the Prime Minister's media management rottweilers. This present case is trivial, but attempts by the public broadcaster to help disrupt a party leader's public meetings during the election campaign (and the leading opposition party leader at that) are not clever. Posted by: TomCS at April 25, 2005 08:20 AMattempts by the public broadcaster to help disrupt a party leader's public meetings during the election campaign (and the leading opposition party leader at that) are not clever.Tom; You are the master of understandment. Posted by: c3 at April 25, 2005 07:49 PM The BBC has no credibility whatsoever. Posted by: AH at April 26, 2005 02:59 PM |
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