Classic John Humphrys this morning on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4: confronted with information on failings in the care for children with learning difficulties in our government monopololy system, his first demand was that there should surely be statutory law compelling local authorities to do what should be done. The answer came back, well actually there already is a law. It is just not carried out or not properly.
The next resort for this dyed-in-the-wool statist was to demand that more 'resources' - meaning more government money from taxpayers - should be spent on the problem. The reply came back that well, actually, the budget for this has been doubled in recent years but it is not being used well.
Mr Humphrys will never learn from such exchanges. He is convinced that more central diktats and more government money are the answer to everything. No quantity of evidence to the contrary or evidence of damaging effects of these things will change his mind. He promotes this view every week in the most important political radio programme on the airwaves. This is BBC bias.
Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Media, including BBC bias
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Indeed. The only solution is to switch it off. It's only force of habit that keeps it on.
Posted by: Bishop Hill at December 17, 2009 03:23 PM
Agreed:- even as an 18-yr old in 1968 I was a regular R4 listener. I abandoned "Today" some 25-30 yrs ago, for its anti-Thatcher sophistry and irritating liberal-left smugness.
Posted by: Ted Treen at December 18, 2009 10:16 PM
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His programme today was so boring I turned it off at 8. By Humphrey standard today was very mild and he appears to have lost the will to live.
The major bias came on the World at One by Martha Kearney who is rapidly becoming (after James Naughty) the most left wing radical on radio.
It was so obvious and blatant I wss forced to make another BBC complaint.
I expect to get the usual bland "what me guv" answer from the bbc.
Posted by: Cassandrina at December 16, 2009 05:13 PM