Beeb Bias Craig

Quantifying bias at the B.B.C.

Friday, 22 January 2010

DIMBLEDATA

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* Quantifying last night's Question Time reveals the following stats: * Who got most time to speak? 1. Liam Byrne - 11 minutes 7 secon...
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TALK OF TORY TOFFS? HERE'S CRICK!

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* On the same edition of Newsnight my old friend Michael Crick was back, talking about Labour's class-war strategy in the wake of Har...
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ESLER DONS THE BURQA

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* The likely French action against wearing the burqa was discussed on last night's Newsnight by Gavin Esler with his left-wing Dateli...
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ALL SIDES OF THE LEFT CAN JOIN IN

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* Last night's Newsnight discussed Jack Straw's evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry with a supporter and an opponent of the Iraq War, ...
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Thursday, 21 January 2010

KATTY CLAWS THE REPUBLICANS

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* Back at work again today means some more late, late blogging! 20 hours after Newsnight 's post-mortem on the Massachusetts defeat for ...
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WHO'S LEFT IN?

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* This morning's Today was almost completely free of right-of-centre voices. * Charges for online newspapers were discussed with Tim L...
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A DAY NOT TO BURY GOOD NEWS

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* I can't put this any better than Not a Sheep , so I'll just lift his entire post instead!: Reporting of economic news depends on t...
Wednesday, 20 January 2010

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...
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THE JO DELUSION

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* An enjoyable Daily Politics today, with Andrew on top form, Norman Tebbit talking good sense (on almost everything) and an interesting di...
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DAVID WILLETTS SPEAKS FOR THE TORIES, AND SO DOES ED BALLS

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* Here's some of this morning blurb on the Today website: The pre -election campaign moves onto families today. The government is to lau...

NO MARKS FOR MARDELL

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* I know it's unseemly to gloat, but... * Mark Mardell got it wrong!: "It would be a grievous blow for Obama if this seat went Re...
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010

HARKIN' ONLY TO THE LEFT

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* The Conservatives are courting 'the wisdom of crowds', or 'crowd sourcing' in the jargon. (Please hand me my revolver!) Th...
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BONKERS!

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* Jim Naughtie really doesn't like Conservatives (or members of UKIP for that matter). You can hear that in his tone of voice in interv...
Monday, 18 January 2010

THE NORMAN YOKE

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* I was not especially impressed by Norman Smith (standing in for Carolyn Quinn) on Westminster Hour . (Laura Kuenssberg was much better.) ...

EVAN FALLS TO EARTH

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* The shine is coming off Evan Davis and my hopes that he would soften the left-wing bias of Jim and John are fading. This morning's po...
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HOW BLAIR'S COURTIERS PROSPER

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* It's interesting how many former New Labour courtiers seem to crop up on the Today programme in new, doubtless well-paid positions. T...
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A CHILE DAWN FOR THE BBC

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* The BBC are choking on their muesli today as a conservative candidate has won the presidential election in Chile. The tone of both their w...
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INDEPENDENT HOUR

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* Here's an update on something I blogged last Monday. This is what I wrote in its entirity (how's that for re-cycling!): Most editi...
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Sunday, 17 January 2010

SN(i)P(ing)

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* As a disinterested party in this (strongly disliking both Labour and the SNP), I find The Politics Show: Scotland and its pro-Labour pres...
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THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS...AT THE BBC

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* As The World This Weekend began its coverage of the upcoming election in Massachusetts for the senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy, I was ...
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