More BBC bias - this time of omission

Take a look at this from Iain Dale and wonder how the BBC can claim to be unbiased. The BBC help to define the political agenda, "the narrative" as I call it, and they can do this by angling the stories that they choose to cover and also by not covering stories that don't fit "the narrative".

Emily Thornberry, Labour MP for Islington South, is the MP in question and she was named by Sir Philip Mawer (Parliament's standards watchdog) as being "unwise" to have inserted a quote into an official press release. Tou can read the report here and you will notice that Ms Emily Thornberry's name appears quite prominently near the top of the report.

From the conclusion of the report comes this "I find proven on the facts the allegation that Ms Thornberry inserted a quotation from herself in an Electoral Commission press release, without first obtaining the Commission's permission, before sending it to the media in a form which might reasonably have given the impression that it was still an official document from the Commission."

Mind you the Commissioner concludes that "To sum up, on the evidence before me, I find the first limb of Councillor Hitchins's complaint proven as to the facts, but the second not proven. Ms Thornberry's actions in adding a quotation in her own name to an Electoral Commission press release without the Commission's permission and then distributing the release to the media in a form which could suggest it was still a Commission document were unwise and unfortunate. They are not to be condoned. For the reasons I have set out in paragraphs 42-48, I do not, however, believe they amounted to a clear breach of the Code of Conduct. " In other words what you did was wrong but I don't want to risk losing my job like Elizabeth Filkin.

Also take a look at this.