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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Have the BBC no shame?
Posted by: Sam Hearn
Date/Time: 13/01/15 13:56:00

An old story .....

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'.

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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Have the BBC no shame?09/01/15 14:16:00 Jean F Fernandez
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                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Have the BBC no shame?09/01/15 17:11:00 Jean F Fernandez
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         Re:Re:Re:Have the BBC no shame?09/01/15 17:09:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
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         Re:Re:Re:Have the BBC no shame?13/01/15 13:56:00 Sam Hearn
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                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Have the BBC no shame?13/01/15 22:40:00 Anita Blake
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                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Have the BBC no shame?14/01/15 09:34:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Have the BBC no shame?15/01/15 12:15:00 Sam Hearn
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Have the BBC no shame?15/01/15 13:12:00 Jean F Fernandez
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                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Have the BBC no shame?15/01/15 14:27:00 Jean F Fernandez
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Have the BBC no shame?15/01/15 14:53:00 Adam Beamish

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