Facebook proves BBC is Liberal
Like people would say “tell me something I don’t know” , BBC has proven that through there broadcasting stragedy. Man Not just BBC , look at CNN and NBC/msnbc .
see , you can hide it but it will come eventually.
The BBC has frequently been accused of having a liberal bias.
But now
the corporation’s own staff appear to have confirmed this by revealing their
political views on the networking website Facebook.
A survey of BBC
employees with profiles on the site showed that 11 times more of them class
themselves as “liberal” than “conservative”. Critics seized on the figures
as evidence that the supposedly impartial corporation, paid for by the licence
fee, is dominated by liberals.
All Facebook members can record their
political views in their profile – choosing between very conservative,
conservative, moderate, liberal, very lib “other”.
They can also keep their
stance a secret.
Research by the conservativehome. com website showed that
1,340 staff put themselves in the “liberal” or “very liberal” category, compared
with just 120 who were “conservative” or “very conservative”. Some 340 regard
themselves as “moderate”.
BBC employees went Facebook mad earlier this year,
with thousands signing up to log their profiles.
A total of 10,580 are
registered on the site, but not all have declared their political views.
Because the website was created in the U.S., there is no choice of “Labour”,
“Conservative” or “Liberal Democrat”.
But separate research revealed that
nearly 80 per cent of those who describe themselves as “liberal” on Facebook
either vote Lib- Dem (49.9 per cent) or Labour (38.5 per cent).
Just 3.9 per
cent in the liberal category said they vote Tory. The research was carried out
by Samuel Coates, the deputy editor of conservativehome, a Tory grassroots
Internet site.
He said: “The sheer size of the ratio of liberals to
conservatives surely goes some way to confirming what many Conservatives already
feel about the BBC.
“They can rightly feel aggrieved that their licence fees
don’t go to a more representative institution.
“Its employees are very
professional but the self-perpetuating institutional bias of them all sharing
similar world views makes it hard for them to diagnose this problem.
“This
disillusionment partly explains the dominance of conservatism on the internet.”
Senior BBC journalists such as John Simpson and John Humphrys have
questioned the corporation’s bias in favour of the Government.
A search of
the UK-wide Facebook “population” reveals a much smaller liberal to conservative
ratio – just 2.5 to one.
Narrowing it down to the London network – which
most BBC employees have joined – the ratio is around three to one.
Earlier
this year, an independent review commissioned by the BBC found that it was out
of touch with large swathes of the public and guilty of a “bias of omission”.
The report noted that the BBC had “come late” to several important stories
in recent years, including Euroscepticism and immigration.
