Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
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Elwood Blues
Oh come on he is a political journslist.
They are fed a constant stream of lies snd half truths from all sides.
Then they should do the same cross checks and validations before tweeting that they do before going to print.
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
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the other bob wilson
That Peston is guilty as Kuenssberg of a knee jerk compliant reaction when they are passed what turns out to be incorrect information by "senior Conservative sources".
That may be true but you can't tell me that the majority of those who responded to those twitter accounts are exactly unbiased observers!!!
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
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Eric Cartman
And their job is just to tweet that unmoderated?
No but I am sure it has happened many times before to many journalists
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
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lardy
Then they should do the same cross checks and validations before tweeting that they do before going to print.
That is why social media causes all sorts of problems
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
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Elwood Blues
That may be true but you can't tell me that the majority of those who responded to those twitter accounts are exactly unbiased observers!!!
I don't see what the response to mistaken tweets has got to do with it. The issue here is that two journalists, who are in very influential positions, were either lazy, incompetent or biased when fed incorrect information by sources they will not reveal.
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
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Elwood Blues
That is why social media causes all sorts of problems
But it's here regardless, and journalists have the responsibility to behave like journalists. Theres no one else to blame. They are responsible for what they put out, whether it's on 'problematic' social media, a newspaper, a sandwich board, anything.
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
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the other bob wilson
I don't see what the response to mistaken tweets has got to do with it. The issue here is that two journalists, who are in very influential positions, were either lazy, incompetent or biased when fed incorrect information by sources they will not reveal.
You put the links to the tweet up Bob!!!!
Are you saying that journalists should now reveal their sources??
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
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Originally Posted by
Elwood Blues
You put the links to the tweet up Bob!!!!
Are you saying that journalists should now reveal their sources??
I don't understand what you're getting at - I didn't post Peston's tweet because of the responses to it, I posted it because he admitted he posted something in error and, yes, when a journalist puts a story out that is based on something which is shown to be not true, then they should give serious thought to revealing a source.
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
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Originally Posted by
Elwood Blues
Oh come on he is a political journslist.
They are fed a constant stream of lies snd half truths from all sides.
Yes because Kuenssberg has previous where Corbyn and the Labour are concerned. Peston doesn’t.
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
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Elwood Blues
You put the links to the tweet up Bob!!!!
Are you saying that journalists should now reveal their sources??
Would that be such an outrageous proposition?
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
No need for any comment really, but I will say that a whopping twelve per cent of Conservative adverts on Facebook must therefore be accurate.
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-06/...ok-misleading/
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
Re: More evidence of BBC right wing bias ?
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the other bob wilson
Brilliant! That is balance as LOM would understand it! :hehe: