Those who have had the opportunity to watch the news today - and I'm referring to the BBC - may well have noticed that they are not reporting on the MORI poll results, which put the Tories at 54% The BBC has instead run stories on how the government has reduced MRSA and how wonderful it all is.
Nor, on their reporting of the banks merger, have the once mentioned this -
Suspicions that Prime Minister Gordon Brown sought to limit the political damage from the HBOS takeover were heightened today after Lloyds TSB vowed to protect jobs in Scotland.
In an unprecedented move for a bank merger, the company today insisted that it would retain its Scottish HQ in Edinburgh, would continue to print Bank of Scotland banknotes and that its "management focus" would be on saving as many staff as possible north of the border.
City analysts were amazed by the merger document's specific pledge to "keep jobs in Scotland" and pointed out that it sat uneasily with the wider drive to find £1 billion in job cuts.
The Standard understands that Chancellor Alistair Darling was intimately involved in moves to get Lloyds to agree that maintaining a strong presence in Edinburgh was crucial to protecting the integrity of the financial system in Scotland.
Mr Darling today admitted that he was worried about protecting jobs in his own Edinburgh constituency. Read more here.
It's only incredibly important in relation to jobs in England and the fact that Brown and Darling are sticking to their Scottish of Claim of Right pledge.
It would appear that the BBC is intent on "burying bad news" for the Labour Party. With out licence fees, remember?
With this in mind, please would you pen a letter pointing out how the BBC is acting as a Labour Spin Doctor, in deciding what news items the public should be allowed to know about. Even if you live abroad, you can mention that it has not been published on their website, either, so you don't need access to our TV programmes to join in if you should so wish (and we certainly do value your contributions).
I telephoned a complaint to the BBC this morning. Apparently, they're very busy with a lot of complaints recently and have a backlog. I had to wait 10 minutes on the telephone, so I took the opportunity to complain that I never get an English voice on the other end - don't they employ people with English accents to answer the phones? The operator said they employ people lots of ethnics, so I said I'm not an ethnic, I'm British, like you, aren't I?
You can write to whichever newspaper takes your fancy, or use the same email to write to all of them if you have the time. The BBC needs its wings clipped and pulling back into line. They serve us - not the other way around.
Why is the BBC behaving like a Labour Spin Doctor? On a day when the Tories hammered Labour at 53% in a MORI poll, BBC News 24 chose to ignore it and run a story that the government had reduced MRSA since 2004, thereby burying bad news for them. Even when they reported on the bank mergers, they never mentioned that Gordon and Alistair had inserted a unique in banking clause that jobs and the headquarters in Scotland must be spared - presumably at the cost of jobs in England. Not even a peep of either on their website. It is not the job of the BBC to decide that we must not be told news which shows the Labour Party in a bad light. Is the government involved in this? We deserve to be told what is going on between the BBC and Gordon Brown.
Cheers to DEE from Armchair Activists.
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