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« on: November 14, 2012, 01:35:08 AM »
« edited: November 14, 2012, 01:44:52 AM by Leftbehind »

The BBC do have a habit of seemingly focusing more on right wing faliures than center left wing's ones even when the center lefts faliures are more grevious than the left or right's. Expenses Scandals involving, for example, Dennis McShane? Hardly mention he's Labour. Involves A Tory who claimed 2k for a Duck House, or a traditionalist, Eurosceptic socialist? Keep digging it up, allow people on panel shows to mock it until its a zombie stallion.
The duck house and moat cleaning better exemplify the sort of out of touch bollocks that the expenses scandle played to, even if they weren't the worst in financial terms. It's pretty obvious that there's more comedic value in those for panel guests than swapping flats and even then, the joke of two flat MPs has been done to death - but because loads of them were doing it, it's a joke about general MPs.


All comedy is left wing on the BBC and C4 though, despite the fact there's a lot less to laught at about UKIP and the Conservatives than with the GOP or CDU.
I'm not sayin that represents all BBC content though.
The only vaguely right wing stuff on the BBC these days is Top Gear. (and possibly, just possibly, Ian Hislop on Have I Got News For You)
Top Gear vaguely right-wing? It's more right-wing than the vast majority of comedies are left-wing (not targeting minorities for jokes =/= left-wing). Besides, why on earth would they be focusing on foreign right-wing parties, that most Britons haven't even heard of? C4 is a different channel, so I'll have to object to you casually dropping them in as evidence for your whinge.

Oh, by the way, it's not enough for comedians or BBC employees to attack the left,
reason is "Labour /LibDems/Greens/RESPECT aren't left wing enough", you have to air attacks from the right to be genuinely unbiased
That's twice you've conflated general BBC programming with their comedy output in your attack, so let's get this straight: do you think beyond comedy the BBC is biased to the left? There's plenty of attacks from the Right on the BBC to be seen, most of their news coverage is right-wing (being that it slavishly follows the Tory press' line) and Andrew Neil is all over the f**king gaff. Newsnight and QT clearly aren't left-wing either. It's clear that the BBC try harder to 'balance' their political coverage than they do their comedies, but it's self-evidently obvious why that is - most of their comedies aren't political, nor is there a plethora of right-wing comedians to choose from even if they were to be so ridiculously anal about balancing every programme they dare broadcast.
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