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

På det allersidste har vi også her på bloggen bemærket enkelte afvigelser fra partilinien på BBC. For eksempel den sobre reportage om Narreskibet. Vi opfattede det dengang som en slags “freudian slip” – hvilket jo kan forekomme i de kredse. Imidlertid ser det ud til at hvad den ganske vide verden vidste i forvejen nu er trængt ind på direktionsgangene – og at man er begyndt at rydde en anelse op i den indspiste klan af politisk ensrettede clusterfuckers – også kaldet journalister – som har tilbragt så mange år  i deres “comfort zone” med at bekræfte hinanden i den rette tro og de rigtige meninger. Tænk om det dannede skole i DDR….

Daily Mail: “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’.