TWIT(TER)

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Another BBC twitterer, spotted by DB:
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2010/04/frank-spencer.html
http://twitter.com/brettsr
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Under Brett's bio it says "Views are personal not those of the BBC. Mostly."
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An e-mail from on high came to us at work yesterday, telling us to remember that we should all behave responsibly on Twitter, Facebook and the like, should we choose to mention who we work for. They don't want us to bring them into discredit. A similar e-mail should perhaps be sent from the BBC's top brass to all their members of staff requesting something similar!
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As well as all those unpleasant comments about David Cameron, Brett has a few digs at Nick Clegg too. One of the party leaders, however, doesn't attract his scorn. I think we can guess who he's voting for:
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Brown seems well ahead to me, and is now playing his joker.
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Brown suddenly seeming like he knows infinitely more than the other two.
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Did Gordon say we should be going around by train and getting off 'domestic air flights'. Tick that box then.
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FIND THE BAD NEWS

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This might be pure laziness on my part but I'm going to lift another article straight from Not a sheep. He puts it so well that I don't need to add a word (except for the ones I've already written):
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Thursday, 18 February 2010
BBC in full hide the bad news mode

For the first time since records began in 1993, the government had to borrow money in January, a month that usually sees huge Corporation Tax income. Economists were said to have been expecting a small surplus of around £2bn in January's budget, allowing a small start to repaying the UK's huge debts. However tax receipts dropped 11.8% compared with January last year, when the government was able to repay £5.3bn.

Appalling news, really dreadful and so the BBC have been leading news bulletins today with the claims that Israel were behind the 'execution' of a terrorist (oops sorry militant) leader in Dubai and on Radio London behind the Nicholas Winterton story. Meanwhile on the BBC News website the parlous state of the UK economy doesn't even merit a place in the top three stories but currently sits at number 2 in the "OTHER TOP STORIES" section. Somehow I doubt that the BBC would have been so quick to minimise coverage of such "pretty ghastly" figures had they emerged under a Conservative government, indeed I seem to remember coverage of bad economic news being lengthy, in-depth and repeated ad-nauseum during the 1980s.

The BBC are moving towards full election mode at present and are concentrating on setting "the narrative" to be as pro-Labour and anti-Tory as possible. Unfortunately it seems that 5Live is to be the flag-bearer for this campaign and with broadcasters like Stephen Nolan on-board the bias will be heavy and hard to avoid.
http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/2010/02/bbc-in-full-hide-bad-news-mode.html
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The World at One decided not to discuss the subject, prefering to dwell on the assassination in Dubai and private involvement in the NHS instead. PM did at least discuss the issue. After spending over 18 minutes on the assassination in Dubai, Hugh Pym came into the studio to tell Eddie Mair the news about the unprecedented borrowing. This section lasted just over 2 1/2 minutes. Hugh reported the words of Alistair Darling about how the government's economic forecasts remain 'on track' and added that "there are some economists who agree with that". Who doesn't agree with that, asked Eddie. Pym's answer? The Conservatives, who you wouldn't expect to - as he said. Anyone else Hugh? He wasn't saying. And are there some economists who agree with the Conservative Party's on the government's economic forecasts? He wasn't saying anything at that either. Hugh needs watching.
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THE STRANGE CASE OF THE MISSING TORY

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Over to Not a Sheep here for more outrageous bias from Radio 5Live:

Denying the Conservative Party the 'oxygen of publicity'

BBC 5Live has been promoting the 'recession is over' and Conservative cuts would 'put the recovery at risk' all morning so when I heard that Gabby Logan was going to discuss this with MPs I was expecting her and the Labour and Lib Dem representatives to gang up on the Conservative MP. The reality was even more bizarre: Liam Byrne for Labour and Vince 'Saint' Cable able to pour scorn on Conservative economic policy, encouraged by Gaby Logan, and no Conservative there to respond.

When I blogged about the new 5Live schedules for this general election year, I predicted left-wing bias, it seems I was correct to do so.
http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/2010/01/denying-conservative-party-oxygen-of.html

RYAN v RADIO 5LIVE

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DB on the Biased BBC website had highlighted concerns over bias at Radio 5Live (a channel I have neither the time nor the inclination to listen to), in particular some correspondence between commenter Ryan (good man!) and Radio 5Live's controller Adrian Van Klaveren that is well worth a read, being very instructive about the biased mentality (and sheer illogicality) of the BBC's top brass:
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2010/01/sunday-mornings-on-five-live.html