Points Of View:10/5/10 Flipping View Technique

[vandamme]

I'd thought I'd share what I viewed on "Points of View" that could be (is) bias:
A viewer saw and wrote into PoV about a scene which had an apparent error, a show which had the picture flipped horizontally.
I.e. in one scene a presenter's ring was worn on her right hand and in
another scene immediately after, the ring was worn on her left hand.
This was down to the presenter swapping the ring from right to left hand and not an error.
Fair enough.

Jeremy Vine continued that sometimes directors intentionally flip the picture for filming ease or it is due to continuty errors.
Fair enough.

BUT:
Jeremy then said that editors/directors intentially flip the horizontal filming when there is a debate going on "to emphisie to the viewer the opposing points of view" even if the debaters are sitting next to each other facing the same way!! Hold on a minute, is it not the viewer that should decide wether or not the opinions are opposing and not up to the BBC to give us the subliminal messages whether or not the opinions are opposite???!!!!

[Teddy Bear]

I suppose they will also use flipping to make us think there are opposing viewpoints even when there are none. Which is a typical ploy by the BBC to show how 'balanced' they are, as demonstrated here:

BBC forms own coalition as it gauges reaction to Brown's resignation - with no Tory within earshot

By Ephraim Hardcastle
Last updated at 2:07 AM on 11th May 2010

The BBC followed Gordon Brown's statement, in which he announced he was standing down as Labour leader yesterday, with a three-way interview with Transport Secretary Lord Adonis, Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell and former leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats, David Steel.

No Tory voice within earshot. Good to see the Beeb forming its own coalition!