This afternoon I had the great misfortune to be stuck in traffic and found myself listening to 5Live's Richard Bacon, one of the few 5Live presenters to make Victoria Derbyshire sound like an unbiased presenter. Poor Richard Bacon had to interview Lance Price, the former Labour spin doctor whose book and serialisation I commented on earlier today. Richard Bacon was all but apoplectic that a former Labour spin doctor and someone who said they would still vote labour would produce such a book just before a general election. Richard Bacon kept asking the same question; basically 'why you would do this?' over and over again.
Richard Bacon seemed to be saying that rather than report the truth (or people's accounts of the truth) about Gordon Brown's nature before a general election, Lance Price should either have not published anything about Gordon Brown in this book or should have delayed publication until after the general election, as this book and the publicity around it could damage Labour's chances at the general election.
If you get the chance do listen to the whole interview it runs either side of the 3pm news; it's a fantastic window into the brain of a 5Live presenter.
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God, I thought I was alone in being shocked by this mesmerically awful piece of 'national' broadcast radio. Bacon's initially wheedling tone soon gave way to increasingly high-pitched indignation which for all the world brought to my mind the spittle-flecked cross-examinations of suspected conspirators in the 'July Plot' to assassinate Hitler by the notorious Nazi magistrate Roland Fieseler. Bacon seemed solely interested in denouncing Price as a turncoat and opportunist, asked him nothing about the behaviour and personality of Gordon Brown, and read out messages from listeners which were wholly hostile to Price - hardly representative, I suspect of what the BBC actually received. Truly shocking stuff, an utter condemnation of the BBC's so-called 'impartiality'.
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