Thursday, 21 October 2010

The Unbiased BBC ?

During the recent party conference silly season listening to the BBC's reporting, one would think the Labour party was still in power. More air-time seems to have been devoted to Labour and their leadership contest than the other two parties put together. Or maybe I listened more intently to what the Torys and the Lib/Dems had to say than the apparent ramblings of the Labour speakers.

The new Labour leader Red Ed Milliband doesn't exude confidence in his new role, looking more like a school boy who has just been given the role of head prefect against his own better judgement.

The Labour shadow cabinet in general don't instill confidence as an opposition and alternative government to the coalition of the Conservatives and Lib/Dems.

Reporting by the BBC star reporters, Nick Robinson, Stehanie Flanders, Jeremy Paxman and the like still reflect the BBC's preference for the Labour party, which is not surprising as all these Champagne Socialist and the unions who control the Beeb appear to enjoy a good lifestyle on the backs of the Licence payers.

None of the reporting on BBC news programmes gives any credit to the new Government for the efforts they are making to get out of the disasterous mess created by Labour and in the most part by the same politicians now in opposition.

Monday, 11 October 2010

Watching some of the speakers on the Tory Conference on BBC Parliament channel - very little of which seems to have been reported in BBC news channels - it seem the Government have a difficult job getting their message through to the British public.

Lots of the proposed legislation is supported by the public at large but seemingly opposed by most of the biased media. One speech which was enlightening was the school teacher who spoke about the problems in her school and was afterwards suspended presumably for speaking at the Tory conference.

The suspension of that teacher to me highlights the problems encountered by some staff trying their hardest to improve the lot of some of the most disadvantaged children. The Executive Head of the school which is graded by Ofsted as 4 appears to have been a Tony Blair supporter.

So maybe the decision was more political than anything else. The problems teachers face need to be highlighted so standards can be improved by the hardworking professionals who are on the spot day in day out.