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Yes, BBC was biased: Director General Mark Thompson admits a 'massive' lean to Left


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BBC director general Mark Thompson said there was 'much less overt tribalism' within the corporation


BBC Director General Mark Thompson has admitted the corporation was guilty of a 'massive' Left-wing bias in the past. 

The TV chief also admitted there had been a 'struggle' to achieve impartiality and that staff were ' mystified' by the early years of Margaret Thatcher's government. But he claimed there was now 'much less overt tribalism' among the current crop of young journalists, and said in recent times the corporation was a 'broader church'. He claimed there was now an 'honourable tradition of journalists from the right' working for the corporation.


His comments, made in the New Statesman magazine, are one of the clearest admissions of political bias from such a senior member of its staff.


The BBC has long been accused of being institutionally biased towards the Left, and an internal report from 2007 said it had to make greater efforts to avoid liberal bias. That report criticised the BBC for coming late to several important stories including euroscepticism and immigration, which it described as 'off limits in terms of a liberal-minded comfort zone'.

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The BBC has long been accused of being institutionally biased towards the Left, and an internal report from 2007 said it had to make greater efforts to avoid liberal bias. That report criticised the BBC for coming late to several important stories including euroscepticism and immigration, which it described as 'off limits in terms of a liberal-minded comfort zone'.

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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

Sanity, dont you even read the crap you post. Thompson was clearly talking about a time 30 years ago, when he joined the BBC. the words below are from YOUR link.

Speaking of the time when he joined the BBC, Mr Thompson told the magazine: 'In the BBC I joined 30 years ago [as a production trainee, in 1979] there was, in much of current affairs, in terms of people's personal politics, which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the Left.
'The organisation did struggle then with impartiality. And journalistically, staff were quite mystified by the early years of Thatcher.
'Now it is a completely different generation.
'There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC.'

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ORIGINAL: DCWoody

A post by Sanity with the dailymail as its source, I wonder if it's accu....oh wait, no, no it's not.

You know you're scraping the barrel when ya quote mine the dailymail.

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ORIGINAL: DCWoody

"the original source is BBC Director General Mark Thompson."

Yeah, whose statements have been misrepresented by the dailymail, and their story twisted further by you. This story boils down to people at the BBC being much further left than the govt in the late 70s/early 80s. This is hardly surprising. Try googling the post war consensus (you'll love reading about how it 'failed', and it'll give ya context).


And seriously dude, you don't want to read the dailymail.....this is not a left/right thing, this is a sane/insane thing. The dailymail is not considered to be useless even as toiletpaper because it's 'right wing', it just plain makes shit up. INSANE shit. If ya want a right wing british source try the Telegraph or the Times. Dailymail'll rot your brain.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

Those headlines aren't faked....those are actual things published by the dailymail...like I said, they're mad.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


From my origanal post -

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The BBC has long been accused of being institutionally biased towards the Left, and an internal report from 2007 said it had to make greater efforts to avoid liberal bias. That report criticised the BBC for coming late to several important stories including euroscepticism and immigration, which it described as 'off limits in terms of a liberal-minded comfort zone'.

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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

When will CNN, CBS,ABC,MSNBC,CNN and PBS start to be objective in their journalism ?