Question Time Right Wing Bias?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24391344.bbc-question-time-overuses-guests-right-wing-media

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Re: Question Time Right Wing Bias?

The BBC has never been a left wing organisation

Isabel Oakshott is a right wing shocker and needs to sort her hair out

Melanie Smith , unofficial spokeswoman for Mossad was married to the BBC chief legal correspondent Joshua Rosenberg

Laura Kuenesberg , Nick Robinson .......young tories who went on to lead BBC political department

Plenty of Tories as director General etc of BBC over the years

[JamesWales]

Re: Question Time Right Wing Bias?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24...ght-wing-media

That's not a clear analysis is it, because media representatives are only part of it. What about other celebrities? I think Question Time broadly get the left/right balance right.

On the whole Brexit thing, we do know they were heavily biased (by 2:1) in favour of Remainers, although that was largely through politicians most of whom did vote to stay in the EU

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/was-bbc-question-time-balanced-or-biased-on-brexit/

We all like a moan at the BBC but overall I think they get most things right.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Question Time Right Wing Bias?

That's not a clear analysis is it, because media representatives are only part of it. What about other celebrities? I think Question Time broadly get the left/right balance right.

On the whole Brexit thing, we do know they were heavily biased (by 2:1) in favour of Remainers, although that was largely through politicians most of whom did vote to stay in the EU

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/was-bbc-question-time-balanced-or-biased-on-brexit/

We all like a moan at the BBC but overall I think they get most things right.

Yet when it came to Brexit, UKIP appeared on Question Time around a quarter of the time and nearly 4 times as much as the Green Party.

What your link doesn't state is whether those MPs etc gave their own views or followed their party lines on QT.

[JamesWales]

Re: Question Time Right Wing Bias?

Yet when it came to Brexit, UKIP appeared on Question Time around a quarter of the time and nearly 4 times as much as the Green Party.

What your link doesn't state is whether those MPs etc gave their own views or followed their party lines on QT.

Sure, although UKIP did win a national election in 2014 and I don't think the Greens have ever finished higher than perhaps fourth?

I'm sure some had independent minds but no doubt most toed the party line on such an important topic.

My point generally is that depending how you assess the data you can get a different result but I don't think there's much evidence of a right-wing bias. Papers like the National would never report anything in the other direction anyway.

[Keyser Soze]

Re: Question Time Right Wing Bias?

Yet when it came to Brexit, UKIP appeared on Question Time around a quarter of the time and nearly 4 times as much as the Green Party.

What your link doesn't state is whether those MPs etc gave their own views or followed their party lines on QT.

There are more Reform / UKIP voters than tbe Green-Extremists so that was fair. Peoole always come out with the old guff “Well they had
more votes than Party X so why don’t we hear more?”. So that was fixed.

Plus there was a very obvious and natural balancing act to be played at the time of the Brexit vote. Why would Green, Cons, Labour, and Lib Dems have equal weighting? If the debate was about pro and anti Brexit, it would actually make sense that those arguing for Brexit to get 50% air time, and Remain 50%, in the spirit of balance. In which case I would expect to hear roughly 50% air time for Boris, Farage and Rees-Mogg (or something similar) and 50% for those arguing Remain. So you could argue that just for the referendum the “Brexit” debaters were under-represented. The only reason you would disagree is if you didn’t believe in a fair debate, wanted to throttle democracy or wanted to approach your politics in a Mafia way (control and destroy your opponent by any means rather than through fair process)

[Keyser Soze]

Re: Question Time Right Wing Bias?

The BBC has never been a left wing organisation

Isabel Oakshott is a right wing shocker and needs to sort her hair out

Melanie Smith , unofficial spokeswoman for Mossad was married to the BBC chief legal correspondent Joshua Rosenberg

Laura Kuenesberg , Nick Robinson .......young tories who went on to lead BBC political department

Plenty of Tories as director General etc of BBC over the years

Leave Oakeshott alone please. I would happily strip her naked and do all sorts. A wonderful and very fit specimen of nature. Top billing totty

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: Question Time Right Wing Bias?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24...ght-wing-media

Nah it's just confirmation bias, you see something you feel favours the right you make note and feel aggrieved, I think they are left but that's probably the same, they are somewhere in the middle.

At least you sometimes not often, you do admit when Labour make mistakes like daft speeds, Bob and the lefties never do, they are completely blinkered and biased.

Both parties are terrible, the country is in a mess!

[life on mars]

Re: Question Time Right Wing Bias?

The BBC has never been a left wing organisation

Isabel Oakshott is a right wing shocker and needs to sort her hair out

Melanie Smith , unofficial spokeswoman for Mossad was married to the BBC chief legal correspondent Joshua Rosenberg

Laura Kuenesberg , Nick Robinson .......young tories who went on to lead BBC political department

Plenty of Tories as director General etc of BBC over the years

Wrong.

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Re: Question Time Right Wing Bias?

Wrong.

You are going to have to do better than that

Give me something to gnaw over

Anything

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Question Time Right Wing Bias?

There are more Reform / UKIP voters than tbe Green-Extremists so that was fair. Peoole always come out with the old guff “Well they had
more votes than Party X so why don’t we hear more?”. So that was fixed.

Plus there was a very obvious and natural balancing act to be played at the time of the Brexit vote. Why would Green, Cons, Labour, and Lib Dems have equal weighting? If the debate was about pro and anti Brexit, it would actually make sense that those arguing for Brexit to get 50% air time, and Remain 50%, in the spirit of balance.

Emily Maitlis, former Question Time host, has talked about this. The BBC's spirit of impartiality doesn't always make sense. She mentioned that, if lots of experts on one thing agreed on something, they'd have to find someone with an opposing view, even if that view was nonsense or not shared by many.

Boris Johnson appointed Sir Robbie Gibb to the BBC board - Gibb was previously Theresa May's head of communications and a founder of GB News. Of course he's going to promote impartiality.....

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Re: Question Time Right Wing Bias?

I don’t think they get question time wrong at all. They all get equally grilled and Bruce does a good job imo.