Bias on 'News Quiz'

[rayb]

Has anyone noticed just how left-biased are the remarks made in 'The News Quiz' these days?
It seems BBC policy to ensure the programme is dominated by persons with obvious left-wing opinions. What has happened to balance?

[Teddy Bear]

Welcome Ray
I assume your question about whether 'anyone has noticed the BBC has a left wing bias' is rhetorical, since this site, and most of the rest of the more objective media, have been picking up on this for years.
Just look at the Question Time panel - usually one right winger to 4 or 5 lefties. Much has been written on this bias - just google in BBC left wing bias - and see how many returns you get. What's worse is that there is not even an atttempt at balance on any issue that the BBC prefers to push it's own agenda. Just a steady stream of left wing brainwashing.

That's why this site, and others like it exist.

[martin]

News Quiz is bitterly Left Wing, including two or more persons weekly associated with
the Socialist Workers Party/Respect.
Since it is a political quiz, a non biased BBC would look for a variety of opinions.
A recent Any Questions happily announced that 3 panelists wrote for The Guardian

[Teddy Bear]

Welcome Martin
I'm sure you can already guess that I totally agree with your perception. I know the emotions and feelings this perception creates in me, I'm curious to see if it's similar in others posting here. Perhaps you would share this with us.

[martin]

Teddy Bear

Thanks for the welcome.
I've found it complicated to join in, but hope I've cracked it at last.
The symbiotic relationship with the Guardian & the Independent is all too clear.
What the BBC fails to recognise is that what passes for "left wing" today
(including green issues) was ultra right wing, & nasty, within my life time.
Jew hating, support for Islam, the importation of cheap labour, & the urge to go
back to pre industrial values were very much the Nazi agenda.
Small wonder Green parliamentary candidates have emerged as ex BNP.

[Teddy Bear]

Glad to see you have cracked it, but in what way complicated?

Interesting that the BBC were challenged recently calling the BNP right wing, when it was determined they were actually extreme left. The BBC response was to say that they were so far left that this made them right wing.

Perhaps your observations would explain why the BBC is anxious to masquerade as left wing to avoid being seen as Nazi-like. Their propaganda machine would certainly make the Nazis envious.

[davidhillside]

There is no attempt at balance on the News Quiz. The presenters do not even try to hide their extreme left wing sympathies and the programme is simply a labour political broadcast with a few cheap laughs. This is the true face of the BBC - showing the true colours of management who allow such partisan 'comedy' to be broadcast.

To be fair to them, 'The Now Show' is no better - equally extreme left wing and biased.

PLEASE, PLEASE can we have some balance.

I'm not holding my breath for a BBC comedy that rubbishes the Labour Party as these two shows do the Tories and Lib Dems.

[Teddy Bear]

Welcome David

Pigs and Flying come to mind when I read your last sentence. If ever there was a party that was begging to be laughed at it would be the Labour.

I think the more the BBC sees it can get away with bias without an eyebrow raised, the more blatant and obvious it puts it out. I don't think the majority of people, even if they perceive it, realize how negative it is for our society.

[davidhillside]

If you thought that the News Quiz was a load of biased left wing tripe....well The Now Show is just as bad if not worse - completely over the top left wing bias - it really makes no attempt at balance. Makes me really angry but just have to listen to it as I would to the ravings of Aurther Scargill or Tony Ben. Or Ed Milliband for that matter.

[Teddy Bear]

I must admit I've never listened to the show, but accessed the 'listen again' facility here. I have to say that 10 minutes was all I could take. I even checked whether the audience laughter was canned or real, as it certainly sounds like the former.
It's predictable crass humour that only a left-wing Labour audience could find amusing. Much like how so called comedians could earn a living with the BBC during the Bush era, just by pulling him to pieces.

Unadulterated bias, and poor quality at that!