Biased BBC?
6 11 2006The BBC is institutionally biased against Christianity, according to recent news reports.
BBC Chairman Michael Grade called an ‘impartiality summit,’ at which top producers and journalists took it in turn to criticise the hand that feeds them.
BBC producers would be happy to broadcast images of the Bible being dumped into the rubbish on a comedy programme, but they wouldn’t dare to broadcast images of the Qu’ran being treated in the same way, for fear of a Muslim backlash.
According to top journalist Andrew Marr, the BBC has a ‘culturally liberal bias.’ In other words, it has an agenda – an agenda that does not reflect the views of its license payers.
On Tuesday 24th October 2006, reporting on the ‘impartiality summit,’ the Daily Mail claimed that the BBC
‘exercises thought control over the range of debate permitted on its airwaves. It has become the prisoner of an intolerant vision of politically correct liberalism…’
The Mail report went on to say that
‘The World’s most famous state broadcaster has turned itself into a kind of thought police that actively propagates political correctness… at the expense of mainstream conventions and morality.’
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