BBC Question Time: analysis of guests over nine years suggests an overuse of rightwing voices
BBC Question Time: analysis of guests over nine years suggests an overuse of rightwing voices
The top five most frequent non-politician panellists all write for The Spectator.
Looks at their political presenters...no way
They're the first to complain that they aren't being included.
They're the first to complain that they aren't the only ones talking.
Decrying cancellation on the front of a newspaper.
That's the trouble with public service broadcasters, they are not immune from political interference.
Jeremy Corbyn got it right, rather than make the controller a political position make them accountable to a independent body. This should go some way to repairing the BBC's bias problem.
It won't happen though they are too good a propaganda outfit. Who for? The establishment. Whichever party is in power. So, you want to change the BBC? You need to change government.
And for those that advocate abolition, at least with the current system, you have one lever of power. Good luck in influencing Rupert Murdoch to sway his reporting.
Scrabbles around looking for shocked face Pikachu
Sorry, Pikachu was determined not to be right wing enough.
Fortunately, forty years of mostly questionable social science has proven, albeit very inconclusively, that visual media has no effect whatsoever on the viewer. Which is why this sort of thing is, as they say, No Big Deal.
This academic review is brought to you by the upstanding fellows at Shell Oil, The Deutch-Russo Benevolent Fund, and Cambridge Analytica. As you were.
"...Things like that, you know, the usual big guy lies" said Ford Prefect "You know, I'm not even so sure they were wrong" said Zaphod Beeblebrox in a relaxed tone. "I mean suuure, maybe on some idiotic races here and there like humans or..." "What? What about humans?" Piped Arthur Dent.
Does the 9 year window chosen for this co-inside precisely with when production was outsourced?
I'm shocked, shocked I say.
This bias has been known and commented upon in UK political forums for over a decade. This, for instance, is parr for the course.
The show also constantly used rightwing hacks from client media or thinktank spokespeople when filling the non-politician spot. It got to the point that if felt that Kate Andrews had been burnt onto my monitor.
Turn the ship, turn the ship!
No way? A tory-run organisation is amplifying voices sympathetic to their cause? I am shocked.
Standard British sarcastic comment...
It's almost as if right wing people shouting loudly gets more viewers, be it with those that agree with them or not.
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Am I missing something or does this article not provide a link to the study? Red flag there.
The data is in the article
A selection of the data is in the article.
What's their methodology, what's their assumptions, what's their references? If you want to look credible and trustworthy in your analysis you should provide links to this sort of information. Otherwise you might be accused of misinformation.
I'm not saying either way, but I am asking where this can be found. I don't think that's unreasonable, right?