{"id":419,"date":"2003-09-09T14:39:57","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T14:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/09\/bias_at_the_bee\/"},"modified":"2003-09-09T14:39:57","modified_gmt":"2003-09-09T14:39:57","slug":"bias_at_the_bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/bias_at_the_bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Bias At The Beeb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I guess I&#8217;m just living in cloud-cuckoo land. Why do I listen and watch the BBC&#8217;s news when it&#8217;s so biased?<br \/>\nToday the <i>Daily Telegraph<\/i>, bastion of all things &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; is launching Beebwatch, with an article penned by editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2003\/09\/09\/do0901.xml&#038;sSheet=\/portal\/2003\/09\/09\/ixportal.html&#038;secureRefresh=true&#038;_requestid=106196\">Charles Moore<\/a>. Naturally he has at hand half a dozen instances of bias &#8211; such as 60% of the audience at the <i>Any Questions<\/i> he went on being anti-war at the start of the last Gulf War.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, noted conservative US commentator, Andrew Sullivan <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.com\/index.php?dish_inc=archives\/2003_09_07_dish_archive.html#106308709244893969\">notes<\/a> that an NPR ombudsman has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/yourturn\/ombudsman\/2003\/030904.html\">few things to say<\/a> about the Hutton Inquiry, and then calls for the privatisation of the BBC. Thanks Andrew. You may be happy with your media, but I&#8217;m not, so let us keep ours as it is thanks. And can we wait until the end of the Hutton Inquiry before we start dishing out punishments?<br \/>\nMeanwhile I discover a delightful blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com\/\">Biased BBC<\/a> which records all the supposed incidences of BBC bias. I note that they&#8217;re nearly all left-wing bias. And those guys can find bias in just about anything!<br \/>\nStill &#8211; I&#8217;m sure there are some pro-BBC sites somewhere. I just can&#8217;t find them at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I guess I&#8217;m just living in cloud-cuckoo land. Why do I listen and watch the BBC&#8217;s news when it&#8217;s so biased? Today the Daily Telegraph, bastion of all things &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; is launching Beebwatch, with an article penned by editor Charles Moore. Naturally he has at hand half a dozen instances of bias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}