Post by Teddy Bear on May 11, 2011 14:31:59 GMT
The BBC try consistently to show that any of the cuts or reforms being made by the present government are damaging for the society, while avoiding any mention of blame to the previous government which made it necessary.
While we know this bias is rife on a daily basis, and when it is overly blatant it makes the national media. Here David Hughes, the Daily Telegraph's chief leader writer notes a serious omission by the BBC.
The BBC reports the news – just as long as it suits its agenda
By David Hughes - Politics Last updated: May 11th, 2011
We led the Telegraph this morning on a letter from 42 family doctors who all head GP consortia that between them have seven million patients; that’s a pretty sizeable slice of the NHS. In the letter they praised Andrew Lansley’s health reforms which, they said, would bring “enormous benefits to the most elderly, infirm and vulnerable people in our community”. They also made the telling point that the changes are evolutionary and build on what the last Government, under Tony Blair at least, was doing. Given the saliency of the NHS row, this was quite a story – which is why we gave it such prominence. But if you were listening to the BBC this morning it was as if those 42 consortia heads and their seven million patients doctors simply did not exist. There was not a word on this story in the news bulletins of our public service broadcaster. Just imagine what would have happened if the 42 had written a letter saying the reforms were all a terrible mistake and simply would not work. The BBC would have trumpeted it from the rooftops; talking heads would have been wheeled into the Today studio; we would have been in full Coalition in Crisis mode. Instead, we’ve had a complete and rather shameful silence. There is something unsettling about the national broadcaster choosing to ignore a major political story because it does not suit its own agenda.
While we know this bias is rife on a daily basis, and when it is overly blatant it makes the national media. Here David Hughes, the Daily Telegraph's chief leader writer notes a serious omission by the BBC.
The BBC reports the news – just as long as it suits its agenda
By David Hughes - Politics Last updated: May 11th, 2011
We led the Telegraph this morning on a letter from 42 family doctors who all head GP consortia that between them have seven million patients; that’s a pretty sizeable slice of the NHS. In the letter they praised Andrew Lansley’s health reforms which, they said, would bring “enormous benefits to the most elderly, infirm and vulnerable people in our community”. They also made the telling point that the changes are evolutionary and build on what the last Government, under Tony Blair at least, was doing. Given the saliency of the NHS row, this was quite a story – which is why we gave it such prominence. But if you were listening to the BBC this morning it was as if those 42 consortia heads and their seven million patients doctors simply did not exist. There was not a word on this story in the news bulletins of our public service broadcaster. Just imagine what would have happened if the 42 had written a letter saying the reforms were all a terrible mistake and simply would not work. The BBC would have trumpeted it from the rooftops; talking heads would have been wheeled into the Today studio; we would have been in full Coalition in Crisis mode. Instead, we’ve had a complete and rather shameful silence. There is something unsettling about the national broadcaster choosing to ignore a major political story because it does not suit its own agenda.