Sissons, Peter

[marky]

Name: Peter Sissons
BBC Position: Presenter & Journalist

By far the most popular and widely read newspapers at the BBC are The Guardian and The Independent. ­Producers refer to them routinely for the line to take on ­running stories, and for inspiration on which items to cover. In the later stages of my career, I lost count of the number of times I asked a producer for a brief on a story, only to be handed a copy of The Guardian and told ‘it’s all in there’.

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I am in no doubt that the majority of BBC staff vote for political parties of the Left. But it’s impossible to do ­anything but guess at the numbers whose beliefs are on the Right or even Centre-Right. This is because the one thing guaranteed to damage your career prospects at the BBC is letting it be known that you are at odds with the prevailing and deep-rooted BBC attitude towards Life, the Universe, and Everything.

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But whatever your talent, sex or ethnicity, there’s one sure-fire way at a BBC promotions board to ensure you don’t get the job, indeed to bring your career to a grinding halt. And that’s if, when asked which post-war politician you most admire, you reply: ‘Margaret Thatcher’.

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Left-wing bias? It's written through the BBC's very DNA, says Peter Sissons

The BBC’s editorial policy on ­climate change, however, was spelled out in a report by the BBC Trust — whose job is to oversee the workings of the BBC in the interests of the public — in 2007. This disclosed that the BBC had held ‘a high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts and has come to the view that the weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to the opponents of the consensus’.

The error here, of course, was that the BBC never at any stage gave equal space to the opponents of the consensus.

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Yet the cream of the BBC’s inquisitors during my time there never laid a glove on those who repeated the ­mantra that ‘the science is settled’. On one occasion, an MP used BBC airtime to link climate change ­doubters with perverts and holocaust deniers, and his famous interviewer didn’t bat an eyelid.

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The BBC became a propaganda machine for climate change zealots, says Peter Sissons.

[Teddy Bear]

Reading the extract from Sissons book shown in the Mail, it makes me wonder how staff working for the Beeb, and aware of the fact they are functioning totally in breach of their mandate, justify their continuance. it would appear that by terming it as 'unconscious bias' somehow salves their conscience.

I don't buy it! Sounds like the kind of excuse used by Nazis after the war that they didn't know what was really happening. So we can expect from future BBC staff, we didn't know what we were doing 'it was unconscious'.

In truth, not unconscious - just un-conscience!