Monday, 20 October 2014

Further complaint to BBC about Panorama bias

The BBC received over 800 complaints about bias related to the Panorama hatchet job on UKIP and Nigel Farage. Their response to those complaints is that they believe the programme was balanced and that they were just submitting UKIP to the same scrutiny other parties have been subjected to for the last two or three decades. So they'll be happy to provide evidence, right?
Like over 800 other people I complained about the BBC's hatchet job on UKIP and Nigel Farage. The programme was entirely one-sided and Farage's refusal to cooperate with a programme that he had warned months ago was a hatchet job clearly riled the producer and presenter. The programme was almost entirely critical and any positive comments about UKIP's performance were right at the start so the programme came across as "UKIP are getting popular but look at what they're really like ..."


The BBC's excuse is that they are putting UKIP under the same scrutiny as the LibLabCon parties or other parties of government. I don't believe this is the case and would like evidence. I would like details of similar BBC programming where one of those parties has been subjected to the same kind of negative reporting a month before a Westminster by-election and less than 8 months before a general election at which they are expected to make a breakthrough or significant gain.
Until the BBC provide the evidence or admit to their bias, I'm going to keep the complaint going.
Posted by wonkotsane at 07:38
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mike dixon · 542 weeks ago

Absolutely right. I am one of the 800 and have yet to receive the anodyne justification from the BBC. The programme was more pointed than an Olympic javelin.
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Patrick · 542 weeks ago

I wish you luck getting an honest answer from the BBC. I made a complaint earlier in the year about "Question Time" and they accused me of not telling the truth even though there were approx 150 members of the audience who would confirm what I said was the truth.
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John Danson · 477 weeks ago

Lord Reith would turning his Grave. Equal consideration of all viewpoints - this was the BBC of old, not the biased establishment tabloid which it has become.
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Steve · 542 weeks ago

In addition we have the weekly radio show (Saturdays R4) "The Now Show". This has not only become far less funny than a few years ago but also they have taken to spending about a quarter to a third of their time bashing UKIP. They would of course argue that they "do" every party but they spend far less time on them and it is mostly less vitriolic "humour" A very "leftie" very biased bit of BBC propaganda. They always have a dig on panel shows etc but this one was actually getting to look like a mind-control-by-humour type of thing.
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DICK R · 542 weeks ago

The BBC are partly funded by the EU Commissariat , this is what we must expect the closer we come to the Election ,also a referendum held too early will play into their hands ,they will be able to mobilise vast resources at great expense, the main objective of these traitors is to ensure our complete subjugation to Brussels.

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