Does the BBC have a Pro-EU Bias?

[unbeliever]

A member of the BBC news team has resigned and gone over to ITV for reasons of bias. Not just EU related but VERY anti Labour and Jeremy Corbyn. Just watching question Time bears the accusations out. The Beeb is very right wing, and it shouldnt be. All we want is a news service, not a collection of opinions. Leave propaganda to the Murdoch media. At least we know where he stands, he doesnt pretend to be impartial.

I personally feel safer inside the EU. They have championed human rights issues where our Conservative led government seems hell bent on getting rid of all rights of representation and appeal.

 

They seem right wing to the left and left wing to the right.

They do insist on editorialising and sensationalism so they're bound to upset people with their own view and observer bias does the rest.

 

They've always seemed to me to be for high state spending (that's a shock) which is notionally left, pro-EU (not sure where that falls) and pro-green (is that left, I'm not sure?)

Generally they're statist and elitist. So if you're not for big government (that can be left or right in modern parlance), or they don't respect your background; they upset you. Ironically that puts them supportive of spending on the less well off, but not the least bit interested in their thoughts or ideas.

[Quik]

The BBC gets millions in funding from the EU, of course it's biased.

[Magilla]

The BBC gets millions in funding from the EU, of course it's biased.

 

"The broadcaster said it had taken the cash under the European Union framework programme, to fund its research and development arm, which is working on projects such as 3D broadcasting, and ultra-high definition filming.

 

The BBC is not allowed to spend the money on programme-making or newsgathering, and had no impact on editorial decisions."

 

So in essence, public service organisation gets public money to make innovations that will benefit the public.

 

Not exactly a hot potatoe.

[Quik]

"The broadcaster said it had taken the cash under the European Union framework programme, to fund its research and development arm, which is working on projects such as 3D broadcasting, and ultra-high definition filming.

 

The BBC is not allowed to spend the money on programme-making or newsgathering, and had no impact on editorial decisions."

 

So in essence, public service organisation gets public money to make innovations that will benefit the public.

 

Not exactly a hot potatoe.

 

It's competitors had to spend their own money developing their HD channels.

 

Of course they are not going to admit that taking millions of quid a year from the EU gives them a bias towards it, but who but the utterly credulous would believe them?

[unbeliever]

"The broadcaster said it had taken the cash under the European Union framework programme, to fund its research and development arm, which is working on projects such as 3D broadcasting, and ultra-high definition filming.

 

The BBC is not allowed to spend the money on programme-making or newsgathering, and had no impact on editorial decisions."

 

So in essence, public service organisation gets public money to make innovations that will benefit the public.

 

Not exactly a hot potatoe.

 

It's money. They like money.

They'd be working on that high tech stuff anyway, but without the EU bribe grant, they'd have to take it out of general funds.

[JFKvsNixon]

It's competitors had to spend their own money developing their HD channels.

Of course they are not going to admit that taking millions of quid a year from the EU gives them a bias towards it, but who but the utterly credulous would believe them?

 

Which they then charge their customers a premium to use.

[tzijlstra]

It's competitors had to spend their own money developing their HD channels.

 

Of course they are not going to admit that taking millions of quid a year from the EU gives them a bias towards it, but who but the utterly credulous would believe them?

 

Universities in the UK take more than their share of the same Framework money to develop innovative research programs. Are you going to moan about that because they are going to be biased towards the EU as well, or are you going to acknowledge that this is one of the things the UK gets back from the EU?

 

Don't worry about answering, I already know what you will say.

 

PS: Saw lots of Michael Gove on the BBC tonight, bashing the EU-deal Cameron got. Gove is right by the way, but the 'deal' is completely inferior to the bigger picture anyway. Of course the BBC is biased, so it didn't register with the OP.

[WiseOwl182]

Today's update:

 

 

Monday 22/2/16 (lunchtime): "EU exit is a 'security risk'"

Monday 22/2/16 (evening): "EU exit is a 'leap in the dark'"

Tuesday 23/2/16 (lunchtime): "EU exit would 'risk jobs'"

Wednesday 24/2/16 (lunchtime): Gove says EU deal 'not legally binding'

Wednesday 24/2/16 (evening): Tusk: EU reforms cannot be reversed

 

 

That's Pro 4-1 Anti.

[Quik]

Universities in the UK take more than their share of the same Framework money to develop innovative research programs. Are you going to moan about that because they are going to be biased towards the EU as well, or are you going to acknowledge that this is one of the things the UK gets back from the EU?

 

Don't worry about answering, I already know what you will say.

 

PS: Saw lots of Michael Gove on the BBC tonight, bashing the EU-deal Cameron got. Gove is right by the way, but the 'deal' is completely inferior to the bigger picture anyway. Of course the BBC is biased, so it didn't register with the OP.

 

University research funding will be an area of EU spending that will certainly continue and may well increase as its funding is repatriated. EU bungs to the BBC won't so the BBC will lose millions a year. That creates a bias. How far that reflects in their output is arguable but to deny there's a problem is either naive or disingenuous.

[WiseOwl182]

 

PS: Saw lots of Michael Gove on the BBC tonight, bashing the EU-deal Cameron got. Gove is right by the way, but the 'deal' is completely inferior to the bigger picture anyway. Of course the BBC is biased, so it didn't register with the OP.

 

"The OP" has only just posted today's headlines. Surprisingly today's Gove coverage indeed "didn't register" with me yesterday, given I can't read into the future.

 

Anyway, the BBC quickly counter balanced Gove's view by quoting Tusk for the evening headline. Today was balanced at 1-1 but still 4-1 to the pro-EU side since kick off.