Tweet or twit?

Pot Head

So What!

Her Twitter page doesn't even mention she works for the BBC, it's obviously personal and as long as her personal opinions don't get into the news

WTF is the problem ?

Michael White

Disagree with Pot Head. Such clear personal bias should not be made public if you are a news editor for a corporation that espouses impartiality. The fact that the BBC is not mentioned is an unconvincing defence.

Santorum

And Biased BBC is a community of embittered nutters whose wives have just left them.

Edward McLaughlin

Pot Head

She is a 'TV News Ed' with responsibility for what appears/doesn't get to appear, on the BBC. Someone with a strong political bias might do a bit of mischief there, which might on occasion, present a problem to those with other views who pay her wages.

And if all of this is personal, then why have we all been given access to it?

Neil Craig

I don't think Reith was exactly objective either. Indeed what has happened is that the British state & civil service has morphed from a rather stuffy, brainless, luddite, conservatism (small c) to being an all embracing, hughly parasitic, brainless, luddite, structure dependent on numerous frauds & scare stories to keep control. And the BBC has morphed seamlessly to serve that ideology.

Huldah

The problem, Pot Head, is that her opinions HAVE got into the news just because she is a high profile BBC news editor.

Her tweets compromise whatever reputation for impartiality BBC News has (little as it is) by confirming that she embraces that pro-left, pro-internationalist pro-arabist stance which for years many of us have suspected is reflexive amongst BBC journalists.

Grant

Hat tip to Melanie for mentioning www.bbcbias.co.uk
Please check the website out. On a daily basis, we expose the bias of the BBC.

Terrible But True

Any BBC employee who does not scream their employment affiliation in their twitter bio is smarter...er, to be sure, but many don't (thinking 'my rants as a BBC editor/DJ, etc shouldn't reflect those of the guys who hired me from a Graun ad' disclaimers will cover things), and it's... quaint to try and project professional integrity on to the collective mindset of a clearly compromised hive.

That.. is what makes the BBC 'unique'.

And, LOL, it has become a bit of a problem for 'em now.

Looking forward to how they handle the hard calls on where savings get made now it's a wee bit closer and personal, as they have trotted out isolated, single-issue, doe-eyed 'victims' these last few weeks.

I'm guessing services will go first, leaving the licence fee pretty much solely to cover the DG's taxi claims and Chris Moyle's pension.

Grant

Pot Head,
But her personal left-wing opinions have got into the news, especially in the blogosphere which is where the real news is these days !

Terrible But True

In the spirit of sizzling debating skills that often get deployed when a person doesn't like the way an argument is going, so 'punting out a tribal ad hom and sod all else will always compensate', one has to concede that for the many fans of the BBC for whom everything is but sweetness and light, this is no doubt ensured by them having access, soon, to oodles of honey and many virgins. Though using this method to lose one's cherry does seem a bit risky, and hence may not stack up well even to at least having had a wife.

Of course, I can't prove that (along with degrees of bitterness or nut), but I'm pretty sure one of Michael Crick's 'sources' said something to that effect, and he shared it on is blog, on the BBC... so it must be true.

Martin I hate the BBC

Santorum: Has nursey been in to give you your daily injection and tighten your straps yet?

mark

Grant

I just checked out Biased BBC website.

Noticed the link to Sky News. Quite useful but could you not also post links to other news providers such as CNN, NBC etc? Such a service would guarantee a place on many people's favourites tab by giving quick access to a range of outlets.

Adam B.

Isn't it funny how every twitter acccount of every BBC employee contains the same political outlook - i.e. left wing?

Is it coincidence that their "news" reports contain the same propaganda and ouitlook?

No wonder pot head chimes in - they're his views too.

Mustapha Bunn

Santorum .... I read 'Biased BBC every day.
Friends of mine have often called me a nutter but I don't think I've ever been called bitter before.
And my wife of 44 years told me a few minutes ago that she has no intention of leaving me.

maddy1

I think it is a fib. that the FO. pays for the world service! If it is true however, it does explain why the BBC's Foreign Policy was more robust and infinitely more correct than that of HM. elected Government.
No mention of Byford and hiis underpants then?

D. Johnson

"I just checked out Biased BBC website.
Noticed the link to Sky News. "

I think this speaks volumes, doesn't it? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Grant

Mark 6.11
If you go on to bias BBC website and contact David Vance, I am sure he will oblige and you are welcome to contribute any time !

solemnman

Her personal bias is exactly what she,along with all the other BBC presnters,was hired for.

Andy

Pot Head,

The problem is not with the crap Kennedy tweets, but that people are forced to pay for something they might not want in a supposedly modern democracy.

thespecialone

Sanatorium - Have you escaped from yours (sanatorium)? I am neither a nutter and as far as I am aware my wife hasn't left me. In fact, she is sat at the other end of the room as I type!
You are a typical lefty actually. Abuse anybody who doesn't agree with you. I actually like Biased BBC because of its expose of a TV station that I am forced to pay for.

60022Mallard

For an "impartial" organisation why does it spend 80% of its newspaper recruitment expenditure with The Guardian Group. Is it any wonder it's the broadcast version of the Guardian whose left wing intelligentsia view we all have to pay to have progated if we want to watch television.