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BBC Bias: What influence does E.U. money have on Climate and E.U. reporting?
I sent a complaint to the BBC today about their bias in climate reporting, text below the break. First though, a viewpoint from Karl McCartney, MP for Lincoln, on revelations about how much money the BBC has been taking from the E.U. It seems to me the two issues may not be unconnected:
MANY people who believe in the need to ensure the impartiality of the BBC, particularly in respect of its news and current affairs coverage, will be shocked by the corporation’s EU loans and grants.
There has long been concern by many at what can only be described as Left-wing reporting, particularly, though not solely, in matters relating to Britain’s relationship with Europe.
I, and many others I know, have the BBC complaints line on speed dial on our mobiles.
Even Mark Thompson, the BBC’s director general, has accepted the corporation had previously been guilty of a “massive” Left-wing bias. Mr Thompson has also admitted that the BBC’s coverage of Europe had been “weak and rather nervous”.
Genuine impartiality, however, is vital to the taxpayer-funded BBC maintaining its reputation as the cornerstone of UK public service broadcasting. The BBC claims to be aware of people’s concerns, and I gather that the organisation has recently implemented “annual impartiality reviews”, along with “impartiality seminars” for staff.
However, in the light of these EU loans, and the BBC’s often one-sided coverage of EU matters, it is now incumbent on the BBC to explain very clearly to the British people how it intends to ensure the organisation’s impartiality, in respect of its Left-leaning reporting, in the future.
Until such time, I think people will quite rightly continue to question what influence the EU exerts, financially or otherwise, over “our” BBC.
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Here’s the text of the complaint I sent to the BBC today:
The BBC has a ruling which enshrines its bias against those with a contrary view on the issue of CAGW (catstrophic anthropogenic climate change) as policy. This ruling was made on the basis of the judgement of 28 people the BBC misrepresented as “climate experts”. It has been subsequently revealed that these people were in fact activists working for well financed lobbying organisations such as greenpeace, not ‘climate experts’ at all.
The BBC spend over £20,000 of license fee payers money to resist attempts to discover the identities of of the activists it used to advise it to be biased against people with well reasoned positions on the CAGW issue.
The average January temperature int he UK has dropped 2.5C in the last decade. 25,000 excess deaths due to cold related illnesses occurred last winter. Climate scientists are now admitting that natural variation may be a bigger factor in climate change than previously thought.
The BBC’s own meteorologist Paul Hudson recently interviewed professor Mike Lockwood who now believes there is a strong possibility that the Sun may cause a strong cooling of the climate. Obviously if the quiescent Sun can cause cooling, the more than averagely active Sun 1934-2003 is likely to have caused a significant proportion of the late C20th warming too.
But the BBC still maintains a heavy bias in regard to reportage of climate change. This is unjustifiable.
Source: http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/bbc-bias-what-influence-does-e-u-money-have-on-climate-and-e-u-reporting/
