TV News

[cromwell]

I was switching between the BBC and Sky news this morning. The left wing bias on both was staggering.

The BBC was interviewing a refugee who had come across the Med on a boat. An illegal immigrant / asylum seeker / graduate of the EU African importation scheme, call it what you like. It was the usual hearts and flowers "people can't imagine how hard it is for these immigrants, can you tell them Mr Al ahwadi (or whatever). Over to a clean cut figure in a suit, being very reasonable.

No suggestion that we haven't a clue who is coming over in those boats, where they are going when they get to Italy or what their intentions are. Just ooh isn't awful, poor people, we should all help them. No portrayal of anyone who might not fit the Mr Reasonable persona.

On to Sky news. Ian Duncan-Smith is being interviewed. Unemployment is down again. The Sky news guy, looking like someone has just run over his dog, says "Aren't we at a point where employers can't get the people they want" and "nevertheless, you aren't seeing a reward at the pols for this, are you?".

It is just unbelievable - and I've voted Tory once in my life and I'm not voting for them this time either. The bias on TV is literally incredible.

[Workingman]

The two of them were running pieces about the 300+ who died in boats in the Med, and whose fault was it: the EU of course?

If the EU had better patrols, more boats, better facilities on land to deal with the influx, all would be well. No questions asked about who these people were, why they were fleeing or what could be done to keep them in their home countries.

No! It is all our fault and we should be ashamed of ourselves.

[victor]

send them back.

[Aggers]

I'm beginning to think that it would be better for me not to listen to the news on TV.

I'm sick of hearing all the biased reports that come under the heading of 'news'.

As regards the question of refugees, whilst I have sympathy for some of them, we
cannot allow them free access to this crowded isle.

[Suff]

'Parrently it's all our fault because we're "rich" and we should feel bad about that and sorry for them...

I decline. I also don't watch BBC news or even BBC programs unless they are specific series. Trying to watch BBC at other times makes me want to pick my TV up and throw it somewhere. So for the health of the TV and my sanity, I stick to other sources and only click on a BBC link when it looks like someone with a brain and a real education wrote it.... The rest I Ignore which is harder to do when you are watching a TV.

[TheOstrich]

'Trying to watch BBC at other times makes me want to pick my TV up and throw it somewhere.

..... which I came very close to a couple of nights back when they reported on a decline in alcohol related illnesses and problems in the UK, and the commentator actually said - get this - that we should be grateful for the fact that we have now got all these non-drinking Moslem citizens in our community, because they are pushing the statistics down in particular parts of the country!

Yet another BBC rah-rah for unfettered Asian immigration ...