OCTOBER'S I.C.s - GLENN CAMPBELL

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Usually available nationwide on the BBC's Parliament Channel (Sundays) and always on the BBC i-player The Politics Show: Scotland is very much the counterpart of its UK sibling - though its host Glenn Campbell is, in my view, more clearly biased than Jon Sopel. I have been suggesting for a while that he seems to be softer on Labour and the Lib Dems than the SNP and the Conservatives. (see http://beebbiascraig.blogspot.com/2009/10/im-so-biased-i-could-cry.html and http://beebbiascraig.blogspot.com/2009/10/bias-on-my-mind.html).
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Here's what he got up to last month:
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11/10 Nicola Sturgeon SNP 1.8
11/10 Ruth Davidson Conservative 1.4
04/10 John Swinney SNP 1.4
11/10 Willie Bain Labour 1.3
04/10 David Mundell Conservative 1.3
11/10 David Kerr SNP 1
18/10 David Mundell Conservative 0.9
11/10 Steven Purcell Labour 0.6
11/10 Alistair Darling Labour 0.6
18/10 John McFall Labour 0.4
18/10 Alex Salmond SNP 0.1
11/10 Eileen Baxendale Lib Dem 0
18/10 Michael Moore Lib Dem 0
25/10 Brian Wilson Labour 0
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His averages are:
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Conservatives - 1.2
SNP - 1.08
Labour - 0.58
Lib Dems - 0
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They seem pretty clear-cut, don't they? Well, even more clear-cut are his super-averages since June (covering 30 interviews):
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Conservatives (6) - 1.67
SNP (8) - 1.05
Labour (13) - 0.51
Lib Dems (3) - 0
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If you are a Conservative politician you are 3 times more likely to be interrupted than a Labour politician, and if you are an SNP politician you are twice as likely to be interrupted than a Labour politician. It pays to be a Labour politician - or a Lib Dem - when being interviewed by biased Glenn Campbell!
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