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Letters / ‘Blatant bias’ from BBC

As I have said before, the BBC is sometimes comical.

When I woke up this morning I found its website full of unattributed bile about Ed Miliband.

So I contributed the following mild remark: ‘Robert Peston made the point recently that the BBC copies the agenda of the tabloids. That is why so much space is devoted to unattributed comments about Mr Miliband. The BBC has been majoring on the story that Labour is failing for months, and this is the latest version of it. Compare that with the constant praise for UKIP, something else the Corporation has copied from the Mail.’

An hour later I got an email to tell me that they had ‘had to remove’ my contribution ‘because it contravened one of our House Rules’. 

‘Your comment [they said] was considered to have broken the following House Rule: “We reserve the right to fail comments which … are considered to be off-topic for the discussion.”‘

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I then looked at the comments that they hadn’t removed. They were, of course, full of bile about Ed Miliband and the Labour Party.

I am not a great admirer of the modern Labour Party, but I object to blatant bias, especially when it is being funded by public money.

Brian Smith

Weisdale

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