When I was researching the article on the photograph of John Prescott (see below), I looked at BBC Online. It was very hard to find any mention of it whatsoever. I only found it under newspaper reviews. Clearly it is a far more important story than that. That is why the other newspapers followed up either on Sunday itself or today.
Then I heard the World at One on BBC Radio 4 at lunchtime today. Finally the BBC belatedly felt obliged to cover the story. But the interviews were conducted as though nothing wrong had been done at all. The fact that all concerned were playing a game when we, the taxpayers, were paying for them to be working, barely got a mention. There was not the smallest sense of outrage from the presenter who, instead, asked the photographer whether or not he had been invading the privacy of John Prescott and this might be a matter for the Press Complaints Commissioner.
In short, the BBC has bent over backwards not to cover the story and then to treat it as a bit of muckracking. The bias of the BBC in this case is wholly indefensible. There was every reason to think public money was being wasted.
Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Media, including BBC bias
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It is NOT Government financed - it's taxpayer financed, and that means you and me.
The Government's role is to direct our money to it - that's why they suck up to it.
Posted by: Plantman at May 31, 2006 08:15 PM