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    BBC biased towards pro-immigration lobby, says study - Telegraph


    It is "common practice" for the BBC to give a platform to many pro-immigration spokesmen with no dissenting voices, while the corporation suffers from Left-wing "groupthink" preventing its journalists from challenging institutional bias, according to the report.
    As a result, the corporation airs "propaganda" for those who favour multiculturalism, said the report by the independent think-tank The New Culture Forum, which looked at BBC news and current affairs coverage since 1997.
    is anyone surprised?
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    Surprised that an 'independent' organisation who's entire raison d'etre is to expose BBC left wing bias, thinks the BBC is too left wing?

    What outcome did you expect them to come to?

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      #3
      Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
      Surprised that an 'independent' organisation who's entire raison d'etre is to expose BBC left wing bias, thinks the BBC is too left wing?

      What outcome did you expect them to come to?
      to be unable to find bias because the BBC is so fair?

      oh that wasn't going to happen was it?
      Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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        #4
        Telegraph;

        It is "common practice" for the BBC to give a platform to many pro-immigration spokesmen with no dissenting voices, while the corporation suffers from Left-wing "groupthink" preventing its journalists from challenging institutional bias, according to the report.

        As a result, the corporation airs "propaganda" for those who favour multiculturalism, said the report by the independent think-tank The New Culture Forum, which looked at BBC news and current affairs coverage since 1997.
        Pro immigration and pro 'multiculturalism' are two different things.
        And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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          #5
          Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
          Telegraph;



          Pro immigration and pro 'multiculturalism' are two different things.
          Doesn't one lead to the other out of necessity?
          How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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            #6
            Originally posted by Troll View Post
            Doesn't one lead to the other out of necessity?
            No.
            And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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              #7
              Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
              No.
              So without immigration there would still be multi culturalism?
              How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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                #8
                not sure where they found that quote, couldn't see it in the report, maybe the reporter made it up?


                this is in there though :

                Multiculturalism
                was for years seen by many in Britain as the only
                respectable policy for managing the problems
                posed by immigration – over the past two years
                it has been much harder to find people in public
                life who support it. Programme-makers need to
                treat areas of consensus with proper scepticism
                and rigour. So often those in the media who
                think they are in the mainstream find that the
                river of public discourse has cut a new channel,
                and left them stranded in ox-bow lakes.
                of course this was from the Rabid right wing

                Some months later, the BBC published a report
                examining how impartiality might best be assured
                in the future. It was, in its own way, equally candid:
                Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Troll View Post
                  So without immigration there would still be multi culturalism?
                  Probably, as there are already many cultures in the UK. But youn don't have to espouse multi cultural policies in combination with immigration; indeed, many countries have had policies in the past which actively encouraged immigration while also encouraging immigrants to integrate into the local culture. Canada and the USA are examples, but obviously the words 'local culture' are debatable.
                  And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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