Old Jug Ears warns Tories on impartiality

Cheeky git, "BBC presenter Andrew Marr has warned Conservative politicians who want to scrap impartiality rules in news broadcasting be "very, very careful what you wish for". The host of BBC1's Sunday morning political show said the move could lead to TV news becoming "unfair" and "partial", like "people in the tabloid world"."

So Andrew, you fear that TV news could become "unfair" and "partial"? Please take a trip to Biased-BBC, I think you will find that the BBC is already "unfair" and "partial" but as it is biased towards your beloved Labour party headed by the great bogey eater himself. Maybe you might also like to peruse some of my articles about you, here they are. If that takes too much time away from penning poems of praise to the glory of Gordon then here are a few quotes from you, accepting BBC bias and the need for it:

1. In October 2006 Andrew Marr said: "The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias." - Walters, Simon. "We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News", Daily Mail, 2006-10-21.


2. Whilst writing his column in The Observer newspaper, Marr expressed a number of political views. In 1999, Marr defended the implementation of the Race Relations Act after the Stephen Lawrence enquiry stating :

"And the final answer, frankly, is the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress. It may be my Presbyterian background, but I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain 'natural' beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off." - 7. Marr, Andrew. "Poor? Stupid? Racist? Then don't listen to a pampered white liberal like me?", The Observer, 1999-02-28.


The British public are finally realising what liars currently rule us and what liars there are in the media willing to propagandise on behalf of their political chums and masters in the Labour government. Your time as an "opinion former" for which we now know we can read "propagandist" will soon come to an end and I hope that you enjoy working in a free unsubsidised media.


PS:
In case you didn't know you might want to take a look at BBC Pioneers piece on Andrew Marr's family connections to the Labour party.