BBC news priorities

Yesterday the blogosphere and much of the UK press (and indeed the US media) started to run the video of Daniel Hannan MEP telling Gordon Brown some home truths. The BBC decided not cover this story then and even today are only mentioning it in passing. Can anyone doubt that if this had been a UK MEP speaking out against Margaret Thatcher or John Major (in the past, or David Cameron in the future) it would have been on heavy TV and radio rotation and prominently displayed on the website?

The BBC instead prefer to concentrate on stories such as this about an Essex Conservative council leader who has quit his party and joined Labour. This article gives the BBC the opportunity to repeat the claim that "I cannot justify David Cameron's decision to make his number one priority in a recession a tax cut, which would give hundreds of thousands of pounds to millionaires".

The BBC decided to cover the Daniel Hannan story only by mentioning it on The Daily Politics and spinning it as being of minor interest to all except obsessives.

Can we now say that the BBC is actively campaigning for a Labour general election victory?



Here's Daniel Hannan's speech and do watch out for Gordon Brown's imbecilic smile at 2:55