it wasn't the bbcit was one over-excited journalist who over-egged the pudding a little, and the governors were a little over-vigorous in their defence of him (it turns out the substantive thrust - that the claim was bollocks - was correct), however they were dealing with campbell, who was so consistently aggressive in his attacks on any reports even vagualey critical of number 10, that they had to be aggressive in return or be shouted down by the biggest bully in the playground
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Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:50,
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It's the whole corporate culture.This was just the most prominent event in a consistent pattern of behaviour by the BBC.
Now, perhaps, it will become more accountable/
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Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:53,
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Now, perhaps, it will become more accountable/
Will you please look at the alternatives?Balance is qualitative, and compared to everyone else, the BBC _is_ balanced. I for one don't want it muzzled by a government that is already scarily powerful in terms of information control.
Who do you trust, Indole? ITV? Sky!?
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Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:03,
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Who do you trust, Indole? ITV? Sky!?
I trust no single source.Diversity of information is the only way to get anything like a reasonable view.
However, the BBC is a near-monolithic block of left-wing opinion funded by legally enforced compulsory payments. I would like to see it, and its counterparts like the ABC in Australia, made to become more balanced, or lose their government funding.
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Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:06,
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However, the BBC is a near-monolithic block of left-wing opinion funded by legally enforced compulsory payments. I would like to see it, and its counterparts like the ABC in Australia, made to become more balanced, or lose their government funding.
Oh yes, agreedA right wing view, or even a balanced one, or even a wibble one, has never been broadcast on any channel of the BBC
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Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:21,
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