BBC presenter Andrew Neil censors Green Party from BBC reports – Pride’s Purge
The BBC’s Andrew Neil is a Tory supporter, writes Tom Pride.
His first job was as a political adviser in Edward Heath’s Conservative Government.
And perhaps it’s because he’s so right-wing that he’s openly censoring the Green Party from his BBC reports.
Here’s Neil’s graphic from a couple of days ago showing the state of the major parties in the latest opinion polls:
The only problem is that in that particular opinion poll, the Green Party were in 4th place on 8%.
Neil, however, decided to just exclude them from the graphic:
BBC apologises to Greens over dodgy poll reporting
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Can Ofcom do anything about the BBC? They are getting way too arrogant now and regardless of whatever complaint to them, it’s met with a “f*** off, peasant” type of response.
Apparently not, as the BBC is supposed to be self-regulating. Having fallen foul of this behaviour myself, I do agree that it needs an independent overseer instead.