Bizarre BBC bias

A jaw-dropping piece of BBC leftism: at the end of an article describing the festivities surrounding the reopening of the Festival Hall, readers are asked to comment as follows:

Should City bankers donate a proportion of their fortunes to causes like the Royal Festival Hall? Let us know what you think using the form below.

Just remember folks, it's not a party political bias - the BBC promulgates a wide variety of left wing views.

(Via Biased BBC) 

Comments

[pommygranate]

Bishop

The BBC will always be biased. I am getting bored of hearing of its bias. All large organisations are biased - look at CNN and Fox for example.

The only solution is to let the left-of-centre BBC compete in the open market and fully privatise it. Then let the viewers decide which channel to watch

[Bishop Hill]

I agree. I only object to the BBC because I'm forced to pay for it.

[Charles]

I agree with the BBC. City Bankers ought to donate money: say 40 per cent of their earnings over £30k. The money would go to fund schools, roads, the miliary and any cultural institutions the government saw fit.

Is tax not a charitable donation by another name?

[Derek Buxton]

No, Charles, tax is not a charitable donation. Such a donation is given freely of the givers own volition. What you refer to is theft.

[Frank O'Dwyer]

Derek,

"No, Charles, tax is not a charitable donation."

Indeed not, it is payment for services used.

" Such a donation is given freely of the givers own volition."

So is tax.

" What you refer to is theft."

No. Theft would be if they were to use and benefit from services such as military, roads, schools etc and NOT pay.

[Bishop Hill]

Frank

But if someone wants to use a private school, they still have to pay for the state one too.

[Frank O'Dwyer]

Bishop,

"But if someone wants to use a private school, they still have to pay for the state one too."

And? You still benefit from other people being educated. You can certainly argue about value or better approaches but to argue that it is theft is nonsense.

[Bishop Hill]

It's certainly not the same as a charitable donation either is it?

[roger rix]

Of course all media are biased. That's stating the bleeding obvious.However, the BBC is a public service , funded by all of us. Therefore, it should have a duty to attempt to reflect all of us by providing a balanced contrast of views. The bishop says look at CNN and Fox News. I wish I could! Unfortunately they are not widely available to the average person.If they were, no doubt the BBC would be forced to introduce more balance into their programming. I help to pay for the BBC. I expect the BBC to pay attention to the millions of people who share my views. They don't. Once the BBC was rightly regarded as a dependable source of information.Unfortunately this is increasingly not the case.