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Sunday 30 September 2007

Some realism on the BBC comments page

The current number 1 recommended comment on Have Your Say - "Tory Party Conference: Your views" is this:


"Added: Sunday, 30 September, 2007, 08:45 GMT 09:45 UK

the BBC interviewed david cameron this sunday morning, asked clearly "you are behind in the polls! how are you going to change this?"

david cameron replied "polls go up and down, you should ask a polster about this, im here to present a real change for the british voter."

he then went on to list policies and answer questions on the individual points.

at the end of the interview, the program went to latest news headlines, the first headline was read out, "david cameron has said he is worried and faces a big challenge to reverse his party's poor showing in the polls!"

come on BBC, disgraceful reporting!

how can you tell us you are not pro labour biased when you report like this?

[denzil69] "

BBC biased against the Conservative leader, who would have thought it...

UPDATE:
This comment, the most recommended at 19:31 last night appears to have disappeared from the comments page, I wonder why?

UPDATE 2:
Andrew at Biased-BBC has followed this up and documented it nicely and will get more feedback than I would here. I will keep this blog updated as I feel this sort of bias needs as much publicity as we can give it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

To further underline your point about BBC bias, it looks like denzil69's comment has been removed from the Have Your Say debate.

Do they think that we don't notice?

Anonymous said...

sean - not only that, they have CHANGED the question!!

But they've left the same answers [but not those criticising the BBC]

Its originally asked for views on the Tory conference. Now it wants to know your opinion on tax cuts. How on earth can they get away with this? All those who have put in answers to the original question must be extremely annoyed -- it makes some of them look pretty stupid.

Oh, and stealth edited too, ie time/date left unaltered.

I have a [partial] screengrab of the original.