ITV's election coverage

I thought that was the best interview of the election, none of the squabbling, refusing to listen and repeating the same thing over and over again to run the time out of the programme,

Time TV political debates are put in the recycling bin.

 

Out of interest Jay have you followed Laura Kuenssberg's tweets over the past the weeks? If she isn't a Tory then I'll eat my hat.

 

I haven't. I've tried to shield myself from as much news as possible. I don't understand the world anymore, it's not mine, I don't like it, I didn't vote for it, so I've pretty much removed myself from it.

I don't watch TV or listen to the radio and this is the only interweb site I use that could be labelled social media.

My point wasn't to suggest there is a Labour bias, just that I think there's always been claims of bias from both sides, some credible, some not, and in the past I think the BBC have tended to be down the middle when everything is taken into account. That may have changed though as I no longer have a frame of reference.

 

I've always been of the same view as you to be honest, people are always going to consider the BBC biased for the other side of the fence that they sit on. However, in this election it has been abundantly clear to me that the Political Editor of the BBC is biased judging her on her Twitter posts (I don't tend to watch tv news). Adding to that the editing of Johnson to make him look better at the Cenotaph, editing out laughter on the news when he was asked about trust in the BBC Question Time leader's special and their conning of Labour when convincing Jeremy to take on Andrew Neil when they hadn't go Johnson pinned down makes you wonder how much bias is going on in the BBC News department.

 

You don't watch TV? You're going to love it when you finally discover pepper pig.

I agree with you that the corporation of the bbc isn't biased but as with everything there are individuals who are and worryingly with the bbs it seems that the political editor is extremely biased towards the conservatives which in my opinion is how so many 'oopsies' have occured that have favoured Boris massively.

Not really sure how you can police that though? The bbc is impartial and it's whole rules and regulations and guidelines tell all of its staff to be impartial so what can it do when one influential member of staff isn't impartial but is extremely clever in claiming all of his or her biased reports are mistakes?

I guess for a start there could be a ban on all BBc employees from tweeting about electoral matters in the run up to an election. In fact a ban on all journalists doing so would make the whole process a lot simpler in my opinion. Beyond that the only way would be to either bring in disciplinary action for these mistakes or possibly to use co editors with equal power and deliberately select them from opposite sides of the political spectrum.

 

Might explain a bit of BBC bias

 

Aye, All her fault. Vote labaa after all we always ev. No thought, no sense. Fools.

 

Come on Albert who should we be voting for seeing as though I am a fool according to you, point me in the reight direction.

 

Does this help

 

According to rumours, they should also go to Esher and Walton (Raab) for a good place to start, followed by Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Johnson), Hastings and Rye (was Rudd), Chingford (IDS) and possibly even Surrey Heath (Gove)....

 

Wasn’t meant to be, just like your post

 

In the past is the correct phrase. Since 2016ish the majority of the BBC's board of directors have been appointed by the government. The impartiality ship has sailed