BBC bias even in death

I actually think the BBC cannot help it, thanks to an anonymous contributor to Biased-BBC for the heads up. The BBC have a Have your Say section on their news web site. This is often a place where questions are posed from a left of centre viewpoint and the BBC find that the responses it gets are not always to their liking. If you do go to this site, then do look at the "Readers Recommended" area as well as the "Most Recent" section, always illuminating. It is very common for the BBC to request "tributes" when a celebrity dies, can you guess which recent celebrity death is marked just by a request for "comments"?

Here is a list for you:
Ronnie Barker: "Your tributes"

Jack Lemmon: "Your tributes"

Spike Milligan: "Your tributes"

Barry Took: "Your tributes"

Richard Pryor: "Your tributes"

Bernard Manning: "Your comments"


I wonder how the BBC will handle the deaths of two politicians, John Prescott and Margaret Thatcher, when the times come? In fact this is not a fair comparison, Prescott is a fool and a knave, Thatcher was a great Prime Minister, but that is not how the BBC will see it I am sure. I am sure many of the BBC still harbour rage over the miners' strike and the Poll Tax and much else, whereas Prescott was a "character".