A Study of AUNT

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

So the evidence from the research is clear. The BBC tends to reproduce a Conservative, Eurosceptic, pro-business version of the world, not a left-wing, anti-business agenda.


and not to forget the excess of climate change deniers given prominence .... denial is a very minority sport; the IPCC is moderate, the real extremists are the much deeper pessimists ... they get no airtime at all

AUNT is a rotten borough all round ...

[MrGongGong]

Indeed .......

So come on MrPee , tell us how the BBC is a hive of "left wing" bias again ?
or has the demise of Simon sapped your bottle ?

[amateur51]

Indeed .......

So come on MrPee , tell us how the BBC is a hive of "left wing" bias again ?
or has the demise of Simon sapped your bottle ?

RM, the Inspector and scotty'll have apoplexy too - a bad day for the boyz in blue

[Mr Pee]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10235967/BBC-is-biased-toward-the-left-study-finds.html

One study says one thing, another the opposite....lies,damned lies, and statistics.

As one of the comments below AKA's link points out, it's easy to point out that right-wing politicians and arguments get statistically more airtime on the BBC- in itself hardly surprising when we have a Conservative government- but that takes no account of context or content. As for the excess of global warming sceptics that AKA mentions, I can't say that I've spotted that. On the contrary, the BBC reports any piece of spurious cimate change "science" as though it were gospel, when in reality, of course, most of it is speculative theorising.

And if you want proof of the leftie bias of the Beeb, just listen to The News Quiz.

[MrGongGong]

And if you want proof of the leftie bias of the Beeb, just listen to The News Quiz.

Yeah right
and the way that they ignore the royal family you mean ?

.......... you are joking aren't you ?
(actually I don't think he is :yikes:)

Why do they keep giving airtime to some rude pub bore who is pretending to have a political party ?

[Ferretfancy]

It's really very simple, when the tories are in the BBC is accused of being left wing, and when labour are in the BBC is accused of being right wing. If this is still perceived as a left wing stance by viewers and listeners it's because production staff are intelligent and can't quite hide the fact.

[french frank]

One study says one thing, another the opposite....lies,damned lies, and statistics.

Quite revelatory to consider who funded this piece of research - the BBC Trust itself.

This was also interesting:

Second, although UKIP received very little airtime, Euroscepticism was very well represented through Conservative politicians.

Voices arguing for the benefits of EU membership were very sparse. This was a consequence of Labour politicians being unwilling to make the positive case for Europe because of its perceived unpopularity amongst voters.

[eighthobstruction]

One hopes the Labour party are keeping (surely) a few policies up their sleeve for 2015....all they need to say is they too will negotiate the EU treaties, which if the Tories haven't done it (they too have this option up their sleeves) Labour surely will (surely)....At moment no need for Labour to get media time for this....other things seem more relevant at this moment....

[An_Inspector_Calls]

So this is the sort of work a department of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies gets up to!

The report contains two studies of broadcast media content concentrating on religion, Europe and immigration. Both studies are somewhat plodding, tackling easy issues such as platform, story sources, nations [sic - they mean stations], etc. There's actually very little analysis of story content at all apart from a scattering of incoherent wagonwheels (they mean pie-charts). Any quantitative analysis is rudimentary. There are several ridiculous leaps from the general to the particular. I fail to see how anyone can detect political bias one way or the other, and why should they, because that was not a focus of the report.

[french frank]

a scattering of incoherent wagonwheels (they mean pie-charts).

Is a pie-chart not a legitimate way of illustrating the mulitiplicity of differing viewpoints/sources (the wagonwheel effect) which their research identified?

[An_Inspector_Calls]

They give some idea of the diversity of views, but by using a pie-chart I suspect they've actually supressed data. I doubt the respondents saw any of the topics as single-issue matters, which is alluded to in the caption to wagonwheel 2. They'd have been more useful if they'd used two scales: radial and polar extent.

[scottycelt]

RM, the Inspector and scotty'll have apoplexy too - a bad day for the boyz in blue

The BBC is certainly outrageously biased on the 'liberal' side regarding controversial issues like gay marriage and feminism, amsey.

However I wouldn't say it was Eurosceptic or too Conservative. It generally tends to strike a fair balance, imv, though as Mr Pee has hinted programs like The News Quiz are often splattered with liberal-leftist comments and jibes.

The only place to get a truly balanced view of what is going on in the world is often the much-maligned internet.

As I type I see Ed Balls has just popped up on my television screen which can only strengthen this view. He looks red-faced and angry ... clearly there must have been some good news on the economy?

[MrGongGong]

The BBC is certainly outrageously biased on the 'liberal' side regarding controversial issues like gay marriage and feminism, amsey.

Or maybe you might be a little on the "other side" ?
:chortle:

[scottycelt]

Or maybe you might be a little on the "other side" ?
:chortle:

I don't claim to be a neutral news channel, MrGG ... like you, I can be as 'biased' as I wish. :smug grin:

[french frank]

The BBC is certainly outrageously biased on the 'liberal' side regarding controversial issues like gay marriage and feminism

It's a bit bizarre to call 'feminism', per se, 'controversial. It aims to give women equal opportunities: on which point I see the DfE is about to step in in the case of a Muslim free (state-funded) school on the grounds that it does not treat women staff or girls as the equals of the men and boys.

The BBC, by the way, distinguishes between being impartial and being neutral. It is not neutral on equality.