On a day when all political programmes are bound to be obscured by a certain televised debate between somebody who is shortly going to stop being Prime Minister, somebody who is about to start being Prime Minister, and somebody else; Question Time this week comes from
London.
On the panel this week we have a six-pack of
Ed Miliband,
Michael Gove,
David Laws,
Nigel Farage Universal-
Shami Chakrabarti and
John Sergeant.For those who wish to take part in the Biased-BBC Buzzword Bingo, we will be playing by the "
Election Slogan Rules" meaning that anyone with "
Fire Up The Quattro", "
Death Tax", "
Back to the 80's" and "
Job Tax" on a diagonal line should play their Jokers early. Special prizes will be awarded for blasts from the past such as
these 100 year old Tory ones "
Free Trade Victim", "
Build a Navy", "
Hurrah For Tariff Reform" and "
The Lords Trust The People!"
Once again TheEye and David Mosque will be
risking an ASBO for swearing at politicians on the televison too loudly, and we look forward to the pleasure of your company at 10:30pm UK time.
ABOUT BIASED BBC
"Last year the BBC collected £3.2billion from licence-payers (pg. 82). The latest licence fee settlement will give the BBC at least £20 billion from licence payers over six years."
"We get from time to time people saying you're biased in favour of the Labour Party. Every time I ask people - show me a case of that bias, explain to me where we got it wrong and why what we said was so unfair - they seem to be unable to do so",
Andrew Marr May 11th, 2001.
"The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias",
Andrew Marr
the Daily Mail, Oct 21st, 2006.
"It's not a conspiracy. It's visceral. They think they are on the middle ground",
Jeff Randall former BBC Business Editor,
in The Observer, Jan 15th, 2006.
"The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?",
Jeremy Paxman
James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, Aug 24th, 2007.
"People who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that [global warming] is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago",
Jeremy Paxman
Media Guardian, Jan 31st, 2007.
"I do remember... the corridors ofBroadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. I'll always remember that"
Jane Garvey
BBC Five Live, May 10th, 2007, recalling May 2nd, 1997.
'We need to foster peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking.'-BBC drama commissioning controller, Ben Stephenson in the Guardian, July 16 2009
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