BBC Watch: election bias special.

[Chairman Yang]

Feature on the BBC News website "Will Jeremy Corbyn's long march lead to power?"

Haven't clicked it.

Well the banner is a very tasteful vector render of Corbyn in that fucking fishing hat, which was also the icon on the front page until about an hour ago.

Presumably most people won't read the... ehhh... gossipy article and just file it under: 'Oh there goes the Marxist again'

[Fambo Number Mive]

Just clicked it. Why are they calling him the "accidental leader"?

[buttgammon]

Just clicked it. Why are they calling him the "accidental leader"?

They have a point. I spilled ink on the ballot paper that somehow formed the shape of an x and just dropped it in the postbox by accident when I voted for him.

[NoSleep]

Feature on the BBC News website "Will Jeremy Corbyn's long march lead to power?"

Haven't clicked it.

I scanned through that quickly. It's a long piece on his history. It seems unusually positive.

[BlodwynPig]

I scanned through that quickly. It's a long piece on his history. It seems unusually positive.

Just something the BBC can put in their report to the equalities and impartiality commission

[jobotic]

Look at this from Oborne's bit in the Guardian today.

I have talked to senior BBC executives, and they tell me they personally think it's wrong to expose lies told by a British prime minister because it undermines trust in British politics.

[Fishfinger]

Laura Kuenssberg tweets: "Tory candidate suspended in Aberdeen North, Labour chair quits in Leicester East", but only links to the latter, which generates an eye-catching headline.

Tweet: https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1196696208879865857

[idunnosomename]

im still not sure how much is conscious tory bias, how much unconscious bias, and how much simply being very bad at twitter

[Replies From View]

Just clicked it. Why are they calling him the "accidental leader"?

Because they think he is Chinese.  (And they don't know what "accidental" means.)

[jamiefairlie]

im still not sure how much is conscious tory bias, how much unconscious bias, and how much simply being very bad at twitter

As Chomsky told Marr, a cultural bias is self-sustaining as people hire like-minded people. You don't have to be consciously biased (although they are also at times) when the only people who get to be in those positions have already  passed through many filters to ensure they're the 'right sort'.

[idunnosomename]

that's the BBC yes. I don't think the BBC has meetings on how to covertly support the tories and undermine labour, but it is an incestuous pit of back-slapping snakes. well. that imagery doesnt quite work but still. fuckit post

[NoSleep]

Just clicked it. Why are they calling him the "accidental leader"?

Of course it wasn't an accident that he has become leader, but the process that led to it included the two "accidents" of:

1) Miliband thinking the general public were brainwashed enough into complying with the neoliberal/austerity-approving version of Labour to be allowed a democratic say in the election of a leader of the Labour Party.

2) The PLP allowed the usual token "leftie" onto the ballot assuming "nobody" would vote for them. Just barely allowed, too (to the regret of the PLP).

Fortunately us nobodies were awake to the opportunity that arose from this.

[Replies From View]

Fortunately us nobodies were awake to the opportunity that arose from this.

Didn't a lot of anti-Labour people pay £3 and vote for Corbyn because they thought it would break Labour?  I recall people like Louise Mensch crowing about it at the time; maybe this was over-reported though.

[NoSleep]

I doubt that there were many that bothered to do that.

[Johnny Yesno]

Mystic claimed he did that. What a dunce, eh?

[olliebean]

I doubt that there were many that bothered to do that.

Certainly not enough to fully account for the margin by which he won.

[Absorb the anus burn]

BBC delete video from their website of Home Sec on North West news.....

"... Home Secretary Priti Patel told BBC North-West that the government is not to blame for poverty. But that everyone else is.Not Tory cuts. Just you and your local council..."

https://skwawkbox.org/2019/11/21/if-voters-see-this-the-tories-are-finished-so-why-did-bbc-just-delete-it/

[BlodwynPig]

DESTROY THE BBC

PLEASE SIGN HERE IF YOU AGREE....

1. BLODWYN T. PIG

[sick as a pike]

Radio Four news, lunchtime-ish yesterday. From memory, but something like:

Presenter
The Conservative party has been criticised for re-branding its Twitter account as if it were an impartial, fact-checking site. Here's our correspondent with more details.

Correspondent
The first thing to say is that the Labour party has also been criticised for using social media misleadingly.

Me
WHAT?

[Leo2112]

https://twitter.com/krishgm/status/1197811903894044672

[Cuellar]

So presumably still allowed to say "What you've just said is a lie"

[BlodwynPig]

The walls are closing in. FIGHT PEOPLE FIGHT!

[DrGreggles]

#WILTYcancelled

[DrGreggles]

https://twitter.com/stevebrookstein/status/1198330225261776896

[NoSleep]

https://twitter.com/stevebrookstein/status/1198330225261776896

Outrageous

[idunnosomename]

Steve brookenschtein

[BlodwynPig]

I SEE NO-ONE HAS SIGNED MY PETITION FOR BBC TO BE D E S T R O Y E D immediately and finally

[Buelligan]

I'm afraid I can't sign anything but am prepared to help.

[BlodwynPig]

I'm afraid I can't sign anything but am prepared to help.

The signature comes with free nokia and pitchfork

[Buelligan]

Have pitchfork (tuning and hay fork) already.  Have no Nokia nor other phone nor need of one, if I want to be tracked I'll get an implant at the vets.