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Torys complain about Paxman
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They have accused him of being biased. Is this a fair accusation or is it just Paxmans style? I watched the clip the other day...will try to find a link though its about 20 minutes long.
They have accused him of being biased. Is this a fair accusation or is it just Paxmans style? I watched the clip the other day...will try to find a link though its about 20 minutes long.
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His infamous grilling of Michael Howard 8 years ago (when he asked him 14 times in a row the same question) is vintage stuff.
He asked the question at the end of the interview the other day
which admittedly been a lucky shot, pulled off well
oh dear
Well it is.
Fox News had a very valid point.
You could see the hand of Murdoch behind all of it- a man who hates the BBC with infinite passion. Poor thing...
never thought I'd hear that
CNN and Sky News seem more impartial than the BBC; although I think there’s talk of the regulations on satellite channels being relaxed so if that happens Sky News will just turn into a UK version of Fox News. Fox News is just absolute crap, flicking through on the election coverage their reporters even let the occasional ‘we’ slip out when talking about Bush’s success. But I guess if Sky News did become more partisan like the BBC it would balance it out.
And to me, that is probably as good evidence of impartiality as any: that both sides of a conflict accuse the BBC of favouring the other one.
Please do name a single occasion where the BBC has shown anti-American or anti-Israeli bias.
Unless of course you are suggesting that the mere reporting of atrocities committed by the Israeli government constitute negative bias. I guess the world shouldn't know about human right abuses at all, should it?
As for Sky News, it does not seem too biased, which comes as a bit of a surprise. However its editorial priorities seem a tad bizarre, often preferring to post the latest Beckham gossip or other showbiz news as their top story. It does come across as a rather infantilised and generally annoying channel IMO, with its bright colours, sound effects and pointless polls- not to mention ad breaks in between.
Can you provide some instances of the BBC getting accused of a pro-Israel bias?
Anyway you obviously didn’t read my initial post properly as nowhere did I accuse the BBC of being anti-American…Unless you believe being anti-Bush is being anti-American that is? I personally hate Bush but I like America…
You asked for an occasion where the BBC has shown an anti-Israel bias. Here's two:
“Fayad Abu Shamala, the BBC's Gaza correspondent for the past 10 years, told a Hamas rally on May 6 that "journalists and media organizations [are] waging the campaign shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people." Yet no British paper (apart from the local Anglo-Jewish press) agreed to publicize these remarks. The best the BBC could do in response to requests from Israel that they distance themselves from these remarks, was to issue a statement saying, "Fayad's remarks were made in a private capacity. His reports have always matched the best standards of balance required by the BBC."”
“Anti-Semitism drawing on Christian traditions can be found on TV, too. For example, the BBC's chief Jerusalem correspondent Hillary Anderson began one recent report on the deaths of Palestinian children by saying: "Deep underground in Bethlehem are the remnants of an atrocity so vile, so far back in history, King Herod's slaughter of the innocents." (The camera meanwhile showed a pile of skulls.) Then she moved on to the deaths of the Palestinian children, evoking Herod's Massacre of the Innocents, to remind the viewer that Jews, who tried to kill the infant Christ, are busy killing innocent children once again.
The allegation that Israel has deliberately tried to kill Palestinian children is horrible and deeply upsetting. But equally upsetting is the possibility that Hillary Anderson and her producers at the BBC do not know that the myth of Herod's slaughter is the original anti-Semitic blood libel, which arguably gave rise to centuries of persecution and pogroms, culminating in the Holocaust.”
Full article:
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/European_Media_and_Anti-Israel_Bias.asp
i sincerely hope you are doing another one of your stirring sessions,
because if you aren't i'd LOVE to see you back up such an emotive statement
I have said that the BBC is impartial (are you reading Luke?)
Fair enough, my apologies
And what would exactly be wrong with this?
Has the reporting been biased?
A deeply biased interpretation of the events that is, from a deeply biased source. I don't read it like that at all, but each to their own.
And as for the Israelis deliberately killing children, well there's a new case every week. I hope you're not trying to deny now that these things happen.
We’ve argued on this so much and I’m too tired and hungover to type out some wordy reply…So I’ll just say have a good weekend.
The BBC is staffed by a mass body of Ben Elton clones, basically.
When John Major was PM all one ever heard from the BBC was about sleaze and corruption. Never hear anything from the beeb about Blair's government- the only time the beeb have EVER been critical of Blair was over Iraq, and that's because being against the war was more suited to their red tendencies.
The BBC is NOT impartial about domestic politics, and it never has been. It has always been pro-Labour, and it always will be. If you don't believe me, go and do a little search about the Civil Contingencies Bill.
Oh dear.
Although of course you'll often hear exactly the opposite claimed by people on the left.
Well that rather refutes your initial statement then.
Indeed.
But you know exactly what I mean.
and "you say you're trying to portect our freedoms by turning us into a police state, so we wont have any freedoms left, bit contradictory aint it!?"
One thing you have to give to Blair is that he's a good orator and defends himself in public rather well. But most others wouldn't be able to. So whereas it would be politically damaging to see a 'heavyweight' grilled and roasted in public, it doesn't matter that much if the victim is a junior minister.
I guess but when the Conservatives were in power did their ‘hard-hitters’ go on the programme? I can’t actually remember. I know at the moment the Conservatives usually have someone pretty senior on but I’m not sure if that will continue when they get back into power.