Beeb Bias Craig

Quantifying bias at the B.B.C.

Saturday, 15 May 2010

THE XX FACTOR

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* I am wholly supportive of getting many more women into parliament and government (especially good-looking ones). However, despite such fem...
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RIGHT ANGLES

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* Another evolving angle on the BBC's attack on the new government has been to highlight the opposition to the coalition from Lib Dem su...
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FLAWED-CASTING HOUSE

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* Another quick glance backwards... * The recurrent anti-capitalist strain on Radio 4's Broadcasting House was in evidence again last we...
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HOBBY-HORSES FOR COURSES

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* How has The Record Europe been going on in my (semi-continuing) absence? * Going back to 2nd May (prior to the election), we find the p...
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Friday, 14 May 2010

DISPROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION

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* The batteries are still re-charging but... * ** Interesting times these (hopefully not in the sense of the famous Chinese curse). What do ...
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TOMORROW IS JUST ANOTHER TODAY

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* The main 'controversy' of the day - the 55% threshold for any precipitous dissolution of parliament - was one of yesterday's m...
Friday, 7 May 2010

OUT OF OFFICE MESSAGE

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* Well, what a state of affairs...! Won't somebody please put a stake through Labour's heart!!! * Thank you all for your kind words ...
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Thursday, 6 May 2010

'LIVE EVENT BLOG' TALLY: DAY 29

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Well, the BBC's electioneering blog kept at it right to the very end. As of 9pm yesterday evening, it had featured 18 posts quoting Gord...
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Wednesday, 5 May 2010

PROTECTING THE EMPEROR

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* The BBC's live election blog is giving its all for Labour today. So far Labour are again well ahead on the number of posts reporting t...
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GOVING IT TO 'EM AGAIN

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* I know from reading the comments on the B-BBC blogsite that I am far from alone in finding this morning's Today programme deeply bi...
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RADIO MOSCOW

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* We learned at the beginning of yesterday's BBC internet election coverage that David Cameron was beginning a 36-hour campaign-a-thon, ...
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'LIVE EVENT BLOG' TALLY: DAY 28

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* Well thanks to you, here is yesterday's tally of the number of posts on the BBC's live election blog that report comments (direct/...

YET ANOTHER HOLDING POST

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* Thank you everybody for all you help. Not a sheep and hippiepooter have supplied me with the info for yesterday & I will now try ou...
Tuesday, 4 May 2010

ANOTHER HOLDING POST

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* A lost evening. * I still can't get into any BBC sites, whether they be Today , The World at One , BBC News . I can't see any comm...
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HOLDING POST

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* Well, I've missed all the fun of a Labour PPC who thinks that Gordon Brown is our worst ever prime minister & I can't get int...

'LIVE EVENT BLOG' TALLY: DAY 27

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* Reading yesterday's BBC's internet election blog was like reading Tass from thirty years ago (and yes Gordon Brezhnev is still fig...
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Monday, 3 May 2010

QUOTAS

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* The BBC live election blog is at it again, messing up my daily figures by using lots of banal/trivial quotes from the Conservatives to boo...
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A CRICK GLANCE BACK

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* Something I only saw out of the corner of my eye (metaphorically-speaking) on Newsnight a week or two ago was looked at full on by a blog...

OUT OF KILTER

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* The balance between the individual and the state was the theme of this morning's Today programme. The balance between the Today 's...
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PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

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* Hope you are enjoying your bank holiday. * A walk for me and the family along the Lune, with sunlight falling on the water, sand-martins d...
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